Ten years into Portugal's public-transport overhaul, ridership is at record highs while service quality slips, transport economists told a Lisbon conference on 24 June. The mobility regulator AMT wants the next generation of contracts rewritten around quality, not just kilometres run.
Portugal has joined Spain, France and Sweden in founding Denária Europa, a Brussels-based confederation set up to defend the right to access and use physical cash as digital payments and a possible digital euro reshape how Europeans pay.
Industrial producer prices rose 5.1% year-on-year in May, INE reports, an acceleration driven almost entirely by a 19.5% jump in energy costs on the back of dearer petroleum products. Upstream price pressure is building again after a soft start to the year.
INE's 2025 National Health Survey, published 24 June, finds lower-back pain is now Portugal's most common chronic condition, affecting 3.2 million residents and striking the young as well as the old. Hypertension, high cholesterol and excess weight round out the picture.
In its 24 June Article IV report, the IMF trimmed Portugal's 2026 growth to 1.7% yet now sees a balanced budget through 2027, with public debt sliding to 85.6% of GDP. The trade-off: a slower engine, a sturdier fiscal position and a familiar reform list.
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A commission chaired by former energy-regulator chief Jorge Vasconcelos has set out how to strengthen the independence of Portugal's watchdogs, targeting Finance Ministry spending freezes and the way board members are appointed.
