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Getting Dental Care in Portugal
How dental care works in Portugal: who gets free SNS dental vouchers, how to check a private dentist, urgent care, and the tax deduction on your bills.
The Portugal Brief
Politics
Football Leaks Whistleblower Rui Pinto Walks Out of His Second Trial Acquitted of All 241 Counts — Lisbon's Central Criminal Court Voids the Indictment as Constitutionally Defective and Says a 'Stretch of His Life' Cannot Be Tried Twice
Lisbon's Central Criminal Court acquitted Rui Pinto of all 241 charges in the second Football Leaks trial Wednesday, voiding the Public Prosecutor's indictment as constitutionally defective and rejecting double prosecution on substantively identical facts.
Politics
Brussels Opens an Infringement Case Over Salary-Scale Discrimination Against Fixed-Term Public-Sector Workers — Portugal Has Two Months to Realign the Lei Geral do Trabalho em Funções Públicas With Directive 1999/70/EC
Brussels opens INFR(2026)4001 against Portugal for excluding fixed-term public-sector workers from salary-scale progression. Lisbon has two months to fix the LGTFP or face the EU Court of Justice — the second active case Wednesday's package landed on the Montenegro government.
Portugal
DBRS Morningstar Rules Out a Credit-Driven Housing Bubble in Portugal — But Names the €2.3 Billion Garantia Jovem as the Risk Vector to Watch as Banco de Portugal Drafts a Macroprudential Brake
DBRS Morningstar's Wednesday note finds Portuguese banks haven't loosened mortgage underwriting — but flags the public guarantee letting under-35s borrow 100% as the asset-quality risk vector, and Banco de Portugal is drafting a macroprudential brake.
Finance
Certificados de Aforro Yields Climb to a One-Year High of 2.195% for May Subscriptions — Series F Pulls Decisively Ahead of Bank Deposits as Euribor Crawl Filters Through to Retail Savers
IGCP confirmed Certificados de Aforro Série F subscriptions opened in May 2026 will yield 2.195%, the highest base rate in twelve months and well ahead of the 1.37% average bank-deposit rate Banco de Portugal logged in February.
Economy
Portuguese Goods Exports Tumble 6.4% in the First Quarter as Imports Climb 2.6% — INE's Wednesday Release Catches a Worsening External Balance With the TTE Adjustment Hiding the Real Trend
INE's first-quarter international-trade release on Wednesday catches Portuguese goods exports falling 6.4% year-on-year while imports climb 2.6%, widening the trade deficit and confirming a more serious external slide than Q4 showed.
Immigration
EU Council Signs Off on Social-Security Coordination Reform on Wednesday — Cross-Border Unemployment, Long-Term Care and Posted-Worker Notifications Land After a Decade of Negotiations
The Council of the European Union confirmed a provisional agreement on the modernised social-security coordination rulebook on Wednesday, ending nearly a decade of negotiations on cross-border unemployment, long-term care and posted-worker rules.