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Markets, Business & Tech Briefing: PSI Up 0.6%, Utilities Lead, Sonae Eyes Malls

📋 In This Edition * Market Wrap: Utilities Lift the PSI to a 0.6% Gain * The Movers: EDP and Galp Lead, Jerónimo Martins Slips * Business & Tech Focus: Sonae Eyes Malls, Mobi.E Hits a Million * Bonds and the Euro * The Day Ahead Market Wrap: Utilities Lift the PSI to a

The Portugal Brief 11 Aug 2026

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Quercus Challenges the Volta a Portugal's Ride Through Peneda-Gerês and Warns of a Dangerous Precedent

Portugal's oldest environmental group, Quercus, is contesting the Volta a Portugal's route through the Mata da Albergaria, the protected core of the country's only national park. It warns the ICNF-approved crossing sets a 'serious precedent' for staging major events in the most sensitive zones.

The Portugal Brief 11 Aug 2026

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ASAE Halts an Unlicensed Braga Food Operation and Pulls 76 Tonnes of Animal Products From Sale

ASAE has shut down an unlicensed food operation in the Braga district and pulled 75,867 kilos of animal-origin products from the chain. The site produced, packed and distributed food with no Veterinary Control Number, amid hygiene failures — a reminder of how much meat still moves outside the cold c

The Portugal Brief 11 Aug 2026

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A Dedicated SNS Career for Dentists Enters Force, Lifting 150 Public Practitioners Out of Precarious Contracts

Portugal has created a dedicated SNS career for dental doctors, published Tuesday in the Diário da República after a unanimous parliamentary vote. It gives the roughly 150 dentists in the public system proper grades and contracts for the first time, ending years of recibos-verdes precarity.

The Portugal Brief 11 Aug 2026

Setúbal Lines Up a €100 Million Dual-Use Port Terminal and Room to Double Its Car Berths for Chinese Imports

Setúbal Lines Up a €100 Million Dual-Use Port Terminal and Room to Double Its Car Berths for Chinese Imports

The Port of Setúbal is planning a €100 million military-and-civilian terminal and preparing to roughly double its roll-on/roll-off capacity — positioning itself to receive the wave of Chinese-made cars entering Europe.

The Portugal Brief 11 Aug 2026

The Air Force Buys Tekever's AR5 Drones to Patrol Portugal's Atlantic Waters, With First Deliveries Due in September

The Air Force Buys Tekever's AR5 Drones to Patrol Portugal's Atlantic Waters, With First Deliveries Due in September

The Portuguese Air Force has contracted home-grown manufacturer Tekever for AR5 surveillance drones to monitor the country's vast Exclusive Economic Zone, with the first systems arriving in September.

The Portugal Brief 11 Aug 2026

Freelancers Who Pay Only the Minimum to Social Security Are Seeing Their Residence Permits Refused, Lawyers Warn

Freelancers Who Pay Only the Minimum to Social Security Are Seeing Their Residence Permits Refused, Lawyers Warn

Immigration lawyers say AIMA is rejecting residence-permit renewals for self-employed foreigners who contribute the bare legal minimum to Social Security — even when they earn well above the minimum wage.

The Portugal Brief 11 Aug 2026

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