The Council of Ministers has approved two draft laws — one giving the independent Public Finance Council (CFP) a wider remit over the budget, Social Security and the civil-service pension fund, and another recasting the Budget Framework Law around a National Medium-Term Structural Budget Plan to mat
Here is your Portugal briefing for Friday, 17 July 2026 — the day's six stories at a glance: * Diesel is set to jump about 13.5 cents a litre and petrol
Lisbon's mobility company EMEL is raising on-street parking tariffs for the first time since around 2011, with hourly rates rising by 5 to 15 cents depending on the zone — from €0.80 to €0.85 in green zones up to €2.00 to €2.10 in the priciest applied ones. The council cites inflation and the cost o
Barcelos has inaugurated two Specialised Technology Centres backed by a €3.2 million PRR-funded investment, one for industry and one for IT, teaching programming, cybersecurity, AI, automation and robotics. The northern city is betting on locally grown skills to keep its dense industrial base suppli
The Guarda-district municipality of Sabugal has issued an unfavourable opinion on two large renewable-energy acceleration zones (PSZAER) proposed on its land, citing overlap with maximum fire-hazard and forest areas and a planned business zone. It joins a wave of interior councils demanding local be
Coimbra's council is set to vote on Monday to double its municipal tourist tax from €1 to €2 per person per night. The city calculates each overnight stay costs it about €3.49 in services and infrastructure, against €726,000 raised by the levy in 2025, and says the higher rate still falls short of t
The results of this year's ninth-grade national exams did not appear on 17 July as scheduled, with EduQA blaming a backlog in classification and unable to give a new date. Officials also admitted some papers may ultimately be returned without a numerical grade, though higher-education deadlines are
