Minister Fernando Alexandre will keep this summer's higher-education admissions calendar unchanged but add a special exam session in early September for students hit by errors in the national exam results, promising 'no student will be harmed'. A grading fault in the Physics and Chemistry exam and d
Diesel is set to rise about 13.5 cents a litre and petrol 6.5 cents in the week of 20-26 July, the Automovel Club de Portugal forecasts, pushing average prices close to two euros a litre. The cause is climbing crude on Middle East tension near the Strait of Hormuz. A government ISP tax discount is s
The Central Criminal Court of Lisbon has acquitted former Banco Espirito Santo chief Ricardo Salgado and seven co-defendants of paying bribes to secure BES financing, finding no evidence to sustain the charges. Prosecutors had alleged roughly $1.8 million was routed to a Banco do Brasil vice-preside
A Finance Ministry bulletin finds that 31.8% of Portugal's part-time workers would take a full-time job if they could, a sign of hidden slack in an otherwise tightening labour market.
As the national higher-education application round opens with more than 56,000 places, only 27% of the affordable student beds promised under the Recovery Plan are ready, and average room rents have climbed to €500 in Lisbon.
A group of 1,260 residence-by-investment holders has filed a collective complaint with the Ombudsman and warns it will take the State to court in September over the retroactive ten-year wait for citizenship.
Here is your Portugal briefing for Monday, 20 July 2026 — the day's six stories at a glance: * Parliament has approved a revision of the TVDE ride-hailing law that lets licensed
