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Seven Northern Hospitals Are Asking Doctors to Enter the Funding Code Themselves, and Their Union Says a Diagnosis Cannot Be Picked for What It Pays

The Sindicato dos Medicos do Norte names Braga, Braganca, Gaia, Feira, Matosinhos, Porto and Viana do Castelo. Its legal opinion says the ULS funding model rewards complexity, and that imposing coding lacks any legal basis.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

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Brussels Wants a Single European Test for When a City May Curb Short-Term Lets, and It Carves Your Own Home Out of It

The Affordable Housing Act, presented Wednesday, sets common criteria for housing-pressure zones and requires authorities to show short-term letting worsens supply or prices. A main residence is explicitly excluded.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

Four-storey white social housing blocks at the Bairro de Santo Amaro in Lagos, with cars parked on a cobbled forecourt and trees along the edge under a blue sky

The European Investment Bank Will Put 1.5 Billion Euros Behind Portuguese Social Housing, and the First 500 Million Was Signed on Monday

The first phase targets 50,000 homes built or rehabilitated under 1.o Direito, the IHRU programme for people in undignified housing. The government says it covers the social responses left outside the Recovery and Resilience Plan.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

The Palacio de Sao Bento in Lisbon at dusk, its neoclassical portico and colonnade lit against a deep blue sky, with the Portuguese flag flying above the pediment

Three Parties Now Sit Within 2.2 Points of Each Other in the First Weekly Tracking Poll, and the Coalition in Government Is the One in Third

CNN Portugal and TVI put the PS on 27.9 percent, Chega on 27.1 and the AD on 25.7, inside a 3.5 point margin. The government scores 35 percent approval against 58 percent negative, and 65 percent say Luis Neves cannot continue.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

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Declaring Personal Insolvency in Portugal

How personal insolvency works in Portugal, the payment plan and debt discharge routes, and the debts that remain.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

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Portugal Made Room for Forty Deep Tech Teams in Porto and Filled Thirty-One, With Nearly Half the Cohort Still at Proof of Concept

Tech Foundry Portugal started on Tuesday with 31 projects from 98 applications. The government's June call offered up to 40 places over four months; the cohort that began fills 31 of them over three.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

Passengers queueing between retractable barriers in a terminal at Lisbon's Humberto Delgado airport, with a uniformed security officer standing beside the line

The Six-Hour Valve at Europe's Biometric Border Expired on Sunday, and It Only Lasted That Long Because the Rollout Missed Its Own Biometric Threshold

Article 7(3) of Regulation 2025/1534 let a state drop fingerprints for six hours at one crossing point when queues grew. It lapsed on 6 September. Ryanair wants it back to April 2027, and Portugal signed a letter asking for the same thing in July.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

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