The Tempestade Perfeita defence-procurement corruption trial opens at Lisbon's Tribunal Central Criminal on 9 June 2026 with 73 arguidos — 43 individuals and 30 companies — running through 25 November on corruption, embezzlement and money-laundering charges centred on the DGRDN.
Who qualifies for unemployment benefit in Portugal, how much you get and for how long, how to apply within 90 days, and your duties while you claim.
The MSC's 2026 Fishing for the Future report makes the Iberian sardine its cover rebuild case study: adult population off the Portuguese-Spanish Atlantic has quadrupled since the 2015 trough, validating the joint Portugal-Spain management plan.
The June 2026 Boletim Económico from the Banco de Portugal flags that the national minimum wage now sits at 91% of the median wage, the highest in the modern series, after a 2023-2025 nominal pay-growth cooling from 6.4% to 5.6%.
Twenty-seven Portuguese startups landed at Web Summit Rio on Monday for the 8–11 June run, with €20 million in cumulative backing and 269 employees spread across Lisboa, Funchal, Aveiro and Mirandela — Startup Portugal and Unicorn Factory Lisboa anchor the fourth-consecutive Brazil push.
Decreto-Lei 113/2026, published in Diário da República on 8 June, opens Portuguese public roads to autonomous-driving tests from 8 July under a six-year operator licence floor, a 0.2 g/l alcohol cap, a 20 km/h speed cut and quadruple insurance cover.
APREN's Q1 2026 tape puts renewables at 78.5% of continental electricity demand, 571 hours of fully clean supply, €41.9/MWh average Iberian wholesale price, and €729M total avoided cost across gas imports, power imports and ETS licences.
