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Three easyJet aircraft in orange and white livery parked on an airport apron in late afternoon light, with boarding stairs and ground crew in high-visibility jackets

Five Hundred Flights From Lisbon, Porto and Faro Sit Inside easyJet's October Strike, and the Crew Have Booked a Second One for the Week Before Christmas

Cabin crew voted 188 to nothing on Thursday to stop work from 2 to 6 October and again from 19 to 23 December. The union blames roster instability, unequal treatment against the pilots and pressure to fly overtime.

The Portugal Brief 17 Sep 2026

Passengers waiting with suitcases along the concourse of Terminal 1 at Lisbon Airport, under Portuguese signs for saida and recolha de bagagem

Two Thirds of Portuguese Trips Abroad Now Fall Outside the Summer, While Air Fares Have Outgrown Inflation Since 2016

A travel-agency association puts 65.6 percent of 2025 foreign trips outside July to September, on a record 3.858 million. Spain took 38.8 percent of them, and the first quarter of 2026 ran 30 percent ahead of the year before.

The Portugal Brief 17 Sep 2026

A wooded limestone escarpment in the Serras de Aire e Candeeiros, with white rock outcrops breaking through scrub along the ridge and the plain visible far below

Portugal Proposes Adding 3,734 Hectares to the Serras de Aire e Candeeiros Park, and Contributions Are Due by Monday

The ICNF wants the park boundary to follow the whole of the arrife escarpment, bringing in land in Alcanena, Ourem and Torres Novas. Torres Novas council has been asking since 2019. The consultation window closes on 21 September.

The Portugal Brief 17 Sep 2026

The lit Urgencia emergency entrance of Hospital de Santa Maria in Lisbon at night, with yellow INEM ambulances parked outside and staff in scrubs by the doors

Portugal Logged 3,658 Patient Safety Incidents Last Year, and Nine in Ten Came From Staff Rather Than Patients

The DGS released the Notifica figures for World Patient Safety Day. Falls and pressure ulcers lead both lists, the total has sat near 3,500 a year since 2022, and the system is anonymous and non-punitive by design: it is not the complaints route.

The Portugal Brief 17 Sep 2026

The Arco da Rua Augusta in Lisbon seen from the Rua do Comercio, with the statue of King Jose I and the Praca do Comercio framed in the archway beyond

General Daily Briefing: Thursday, 17 September 2026

Good morning. Here is your Thursday briefing for 17 September 2026: the day's essential Portugal stories for residents, expats and anyone keeping an eye on the country, running from the taxi trade's decision to join the apps it spent a decade fighting to the ethics council&

The Portugal Brief 17 Sep 2026

The rectory of the Universidade dos Acores in Ponta Delgada, a two-storey yellow and white building with wrought iron balconies and three dormer windows on the roof

Portugal's Bioethics Council Says the Moment to Regulate Artificial Intelligence Is Now, While the Tech Firms Are Asking for It

Maria do Ceu Patrao Neves thinks the industry's own call for rules should be taken at face value. She also thinks the geopolitics make a global pact unlikely, and that Europe should try anyway.

The Portugal Brief 17 Sep 2026

The pink Palacio de Belem in Lisbon, the official residence of the President of the Republic, seen from its formal garden across a fountain and clipped box hedges

Church Abuse Victims Take a Dossier to Belem on Friday, Where 57 Payments Stand Against 4,815 Estimated Victims

The association wants two things from the President: an audit of a compensation process the Church ran on itself, and the end of the limitation clock on child sexual abuse.

The Portugal Brief 17 Sep 2026

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