Daily Briefing
General Daily Briefing — Monday, 11 May 2026
The latest Portugal news, analysis, and what it means for expats and residents.
The Portugal Brief
Açores
São Jorge Felt by All of the Açores Central Group — IPMA Reads a 4.6-Magnitude Tectonic Earthquake South of Santo Antão at 12:21 Sunday, Intensity V on Mercalli and One Landslide at Fajã dos Cubres
The Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera registered a 4.6-magnitude earthquake at 12:21 Sunday afternoon, with the epicentre roughly six kilometres south of Santo Antão, on the south coast of São Jorge island in the Açores. The maximum felt...
Chega
Chega Formalises a Parliamentary Inquiry Commission Into Operação Influencer Targeting António Costa Over Lithium, Hydrogen and Start Campus — PSD Refuses, So the CPI Walks Into the September Forced-Activation Window
Chega formalised on Saturday its parliamentary motion for a Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito (CPI) into the Operação Influencer case — the wiretap-and-search investigation that brought down the Costa government in November 2023 and that the...
Retail
Mercadona Loses Portuguese Market Share for the First Time Since 2019 as Pingo Doce and Lidl Print Q1 2026 Gains — Worldpanel by Numerator Reads 'Maior Dinamismo' Into Storm-and-Energy Quarter
Worldpanel by Numerator — the former Kantar Portugal panel that tracks roughly four thousand Portuguese households against a barcode register — has just dropped its Q1 2026 distribution print, and the headline shifts a six-year market-share story....
CMVM
Braga's Token Trust Becomes the First CMVM-Authorised Tokenisation Platform for Portuguese Shares and Bonds — Paulo Cardoso do Amaral's DLT Issuance-Trading-Settlement Stack Targets the €10 Trillion Pool of European Low-Yield Savings
The Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários has authorised Token Trust, a Braga-based fintech, to operate Portugal's first regulated platform for the tokenisation of shares and bonds. The CMVM green light puts Token Trust into a category of...
Regulation
Castro Almeida Cuts Portugal's Industrial-Licensing Code From 600 to 200 Articles — Economy Minister Pitches 'Small Sines' Business Parks Across the Country and Revokes Multiple Decreto-Lei Diplomas to Accelerate Company Creation
Manuel Castro Almeida walks into the week with the boldest deregulation pitch of the second Montenegro government's young life. The Minister of Economy and Territorial Cohesion told Jornal de Negócios at the weekend that he intends to cut Portugal's...
OECD
OECD Reads Portugal's Chronic-Disease Bill at 4.12% of GDP a Year Through 2050 — Diabetes Alone Costs 1.37%, Cancer 1.23%, Cardiovascular 0.81%, Respiratory 0.71% in the New Article-IV-Style Health Audit
The OECD's new flagship report on non-communicable diseases — Os Benefícios para a Saúde e a Economia do Combate às Doenças não Transmissíveis — lands this week with a hard number for Portugal: roughly 4.12% of GDP every year between 2026 and 2050...