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The arched stone entrance of the Palacio Ratton in Lisbon with Tribunal Constitucional carved on the lintel above it

The Constitutional Court Has Now Twice Voided PAN's Leadership Election, and Says Ordering a New Congress Is Not Its Job

The plenary rejected the party's appeal in a ruling dated 8 September. The national bodies were chosen by a structure the judges say was not competent to choose them.

The Portugal Brief 12 Sep 2026

The pale facade and flagpoles of Escola Secundaria Diogo de Gouveia in Beja, with the original Liceu Nacional lettering above the entrance

Portugal Finished 402 Specialised Technology Centres in Its Schools for 500 Million Euros, Thirty-Seven More Than the Target

The education minister announced the total in Beja while inaugurating two of them, and put the overshoot at about 40. Against a target of 365, the arithmetic gives 37.

The Portugal Brief 12 Sep 2026

A yellow and blue INEM ambulance marked Instituto Nacional de Emergencia Medica and 112, parked on a paved forecourt

INEM's Technicians Call Off Their 14 and 28 September Strikes After Fifty-Six Ambulances Are Left Where They Are

Four hours at the Health Ministry, with the minister and INEM's president both present, ended the dispute. The plan to convert 46 life-support ambulances becomes a pilot covering 15.

The Portugal Brief 12 Sep 2026

Rows of new Volkswagen T-Roc cars on the quay at the port of Setubal with a Grimaldi Lines car carrier moored behind them

Portuguese Car-Parts Exports Fell 7.8 Percent to July, and Germany Alone Took 14.3 Percent Less

AFIA puts January to July component exports at 5,994 million euros. Spain and Germany, which take roughly half the total between them, account for almost the whole of the fall.

The Portugal Brief 12 Sep 2026

The long modernist elevation of the Palacio da Justica courthouse in Lisbon, raised on concrete pilotis above a car park, seen from the side under an overcast sky.

Julgados de Paz in Portugal in 2026: A Practical Guide to the 15,000 Euro Ceiling, the 70 Euro Fee the Losing Party Pays, and the Appeal Line at 2,500 Euros

Portugal's small local courts settle civil disputes below 15,000 euros without a lawyer and with nothing to pay up front. What they can decide, what they cannot, how a case runs, and the online platform that will not take a foreign citizen.

The Portugal Brief 12 Sep 2026

The Amadora town marker at the entrance to the city, beside a row of coloured residential apartment blocks under a clear blue sky, with a second Amadora sign on the building at right.

Greater Lisbon Is the Last Gap in Portugal's Child Trauma Counselling Network, and a 648,000 Euro Tender Closing on 6 October Would Fill It

Portugal runs 37 specialist teams giving free psychological support to children who have lived with domestic violence. The Lisbon metropolitan area has one, in Cascais. The CIG is tendering for three more, in Lisbon, Sintra, and Amadora with Loures.

The Portugal Brief 12 Sep 2026

Marchers on a tree-lined Lisbon avenue at a CGTP union demonstration, carrying union flags and a banner reading Reforcar a Unidade, with one man raising a clenched fist.

Portugal's Largest Union Confederation Wants a 1,100 Euro Minimum Wage on 1 January 2027, Eighty Euros Above Where the Signed Accord Ends in 2028

The CGTP National Council met on Friday and set the number, alongside a general pay rise of at least 15 percent and a national demonstration in Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra on Saturday 17 October. The mainland minimum wage today is 920 euros.

The Portugal Brief 12 Sep 2026

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