When a Debt Expires in Portugal
Limitation periods, the six months on a water bill, the two years on a traffic fine, the eight on tax, the twenty after a judgment, and what resets the clock.
The Portugal Brief
The Azores Have Twelve Months and 49,995 Euros to Erase an Asian Hornet That Mainland Portugal Has Been Living With Since 2011
A nest at Areias de Rabo de Peixe confirmed Vespa velutina on São Miguel in January 2025. An IUCN grant funded by the European Union now pays for a year of mapping, nest destruction and training from 1 September. On the mainland the same insect has spread for fifteen years.
Portugal Scrapped Its Old Affordable-Rent Programme on 1 September, and the Replacement Still Cannot Be Used: the Rent Ceilings Were Due by 19 June and the IHRU Platform Is Not Live
Decreto-Lei 97/2026 offers landlords a full IRS and IRC exemption on accessible rents. It also gave the government 30 days to publish the portaria fixing the maximum rent by typology. That deadline was 19 June, and neither the order nor the platform exists.
The Mayor Who Delivered Porto 2001 and Helped Draw the Metro Map Died on Monday at 64, After Twice Asking the City to Take Him Back
Nuno Cardoso became mayor in 1999 by substitution, ran the European Capital of Culture year and the metro construction, and was dropped by his party before he could face a ballot. He came back as an independent twice, taking 1 percent in 2013 and 1.9 percent last October.
Benavente Zones 32 Hectares for Business Beside the Future Airport, and Sets a 2028 Deadline After Which the Land Turns Back Into Farmland
The firing range that becomes the Aeroporto Luis de Camoes lies mostly inside Benavente, not Alcochete. The council has zoned a business park there, projects more than 100 million euros of turnover per mandate, and set a clause returning the land to farmland if nothing is built by 2028.
Four Court Dates in September Will Decide Whether 850 Flats Rise Behind Carcavelos Beach, on Land Parliament Asked the Government to Protect in 2021
The interim order that stopped the diggers has held since October. Hearings open on Wednesday at the Sintra administrative court, with three more sittings booked. Parliament recommended protecting this land in June 2021, and successive governments left the recommendation on the shelf.
Markets, Business & Tech Briefing: Five Green Names Lift the PSI, Mota-Engil Wins Its First Exxon Contract, Goldman Warns on 120 Dollar Oil
📋 In This Edition
* Five Stocks Rose and the Index Rose With Them, Because They Were the Right Five
* Mota-Engil Takes Its First ExxonMobil Work in Mozambique, at 207 Million Dollars
* Goldman Sachs Puts 120 Dollar Oil Back on the Table
* Europe Sold Bonds and Portugal's Spread Did Not