Guides
Moving Your Household Goods to Portugal
How to ship your belongings to Portugal without paying duty or VAT, get a baggage certificate from the consulate, and choose a mover.
The Portugal Brief
News
TAP Sale Narrows to Air France-KLM and Lufthansa as Binding Bids Come Due in July
Portugal's long-running TAP privatisation reaches its decisive stage in July, when Air France-KLM and Lufthansa must table binding offers for a 49.9% stake. A government decision is expected by early September, even as the new Lisbon airport at Alcochete stays on a 2028 blueprint.
News
Golden-Visa Investors Pull €94.7 Million From Portuguese Funds in Five Months as the Citizenship Wait Resets to Ten Years
Investors are draining the funds that qualify for Portugal's golden visa, with about €94.7 million redeemed between January and May — roughly nine times last year's pace — after the new Nationality Law pushed the wait for citizenship from five years to as much as ten.
Markets Briefing
Markets, Business & Tech Briefing: PSI Eases 0.23%, Pulp Stocks Drag, TAP Bids Loom
The latest Portugal news, analysis, and what it means for expats and residents.
Health
New Patient-Registry Rules Put 122,000 Long-Absent Users at Risk of Losing Their Family Doctor
More than 122,000 people who have had no contact with Portugal's Serviço Nacional de Saúde (National Health Service, or SNS) for five years are at risk of losing their assigned family doctor ( médico de família ) under new rules governing the...
Transport
CP Keeps Beira Baixa Travellers on Buses While 148 km of Working Track Sits Empty
CP ( Comboios de Portugal , the state railway operator) is still moving long-distance passengers along the Linha da Beira Baixa (Beira Baixa Line) by road, even though roughly 148 kilometres of the electrified line are fully operational, according...
Health
Altice Docks SNS 24 Operators' Pay for Bathroom and Snack Breaks
Operators who staff SNS 24 , the round-the-clock telephone line of Portugal's Serviço Nacional de Saúde (National Health Service, or SNS), say they lose part of their wages every time they step away from their station to use the toilet, eat a snack...