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An electricity transmission pylon carrying high-voltage lines across eucalyptus woodland at Rio Maior in central Portugal, under a clear sky.

The Regulated Electricity Tariff Rises 2.7 Percent on 1 October, Turning This Year's Promised 1 Percent Increase Into 1.7

ERSE has moved the energy component of the regulated tariff by half a cent a kilowatt hour, and says the reason is the war between Iran and the United States working through gas prices into electricity. It reaches 779,000 clients directly, and the free market buys in the same wholesale market.

The Portugal Brief 15 Sep 2026

A woman and a child at a wall-mounted Multibanco cash machine set in a stone facade on a Lisbon street, the child standing on the ledge to reach the screen.

A Portuguese Fintech Is Putting Spain's Bizum on Local Tills, With 31.5 Million Spanish Users on the Other Side

Eupago says Portuguese merchants can now be paid through Spain's default mobile payment scheme, and is targeting 5,000 shops and 180 million euros a year within three years. You still cannot get a Bizum account if you bank in Portugal.

The Portugal Brief 15 Sep 2026

The neoclassical facade of the Pacos do Concelho, Lisbon's city hall, with the Portuguese national flag flying from the flagpole above its dome against a clear blue sky.

The Right Rewrote the Flags Decree Before Wednesday's Vote, and the PSD Version Goes Further Than the CDS One

Antonio Jose Seguro sent the decree back in June without signing it. On Tuesday the CDS deleted the article banning ideological and associative flags, and the PSD tabled a separate text that keeps the ban and widens what counts as permitted.

The Portugal Brief 15 Sep 2026

The curved glass and steel facade of the Berlaymont building in Brussels, headquarters of the European Commission, with three European Union flags flying in front of it under a pale sky.

A Non-EU Degree Takes Fourteen Months to Get Recognised in Europe, and Brussels Proposed on Tuesday to Cut That to Four

The Commission's Fair Labour Mobility package is five legislative proposals. The one that will be felt hardest in Portugal sets common standards for recognising a qualification earned outside the Union, where the current average wait is 14 months.

The Portugal Brief 15 Sep 2026

The Galp refinery at Sines seen across pine woods, with two lit flare stacks, port cranes and a tall red and white banded chimney against the sea

Markets, Business & Tech Briefing: Lisbon Closes Higher Against a Falling Europe, the 33 Percent Oil Levy Reaches Parliament, the State's REN Mandate Runs to 20 Percent

📋 In This Edition * Lisbon Was the Only Major European Market to Close Higher, and It Took Back Half of Monday * Galp Led the Heavyweights on the Day a Bill to Tax Its Excess Profits at 33 Percent Reached Parliament * A Halted Saudi Pipeline Is Still Setting the Oil Price, and

The Portugal Brief 15 Sep 2026

The European Parliament hemicycle in Strasbourg seen from the president's desk, a wooden gavel in the foreground and members taking their seats in the chamber beyond

The European Parliament Stripped a Portuguese MEP of His Immunity on Tuesday Over Words Portuguese Prosecutors Had Already Ruled Lawful

Francisco Assis loses his immunity so an Almada judge can open a pretrial investigation into a March 2022 press release he issued as president of the Economic and Social Council. The Public Prosecutor's Office had closed the case as free expression.

The Portugal Brief 15 Sep 2026

An Azores Airlines Airbus A321neo on the apron at Ponta Delgada at dusk, passengers boarding by airstairs with ground crew and handling equipment around it

Eleven Buyers Registered Interest in the Azores' Airport Ground Arm, Three More Than for the Airline It Serves

SATA Holding said on Tuesday that 11 parties met the 14 September deadline to bid for all of SATA Handling. Azores Airlines, on sale in a separate process, drew eight. Both are conditions of the EU-approved restructuring plan.

The Portugal Brief 15 Sep 2026

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