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Praca do Comercio in Lisbon seen from above at golden hour, the statue of Dom Jose I in the centre of the square with sailing boats on the Tagus beyond.

A Single 2016 Bond Matured in July and Took 8.3 Billion Euros Off Portugal's Long-Term Debt

Maastricht debt fell 7.55 billion euros in July to 286.34 billion, the lowest since March. Net of government deposits it fell only 0.2 billion: the Treasury spent a cash pile it had already built to repay the bond.

The Portugal Brief 02 Sep 2026

Aerial view of the Alcoutim solar platform in the Algarve interior, rows of photovoltaic panels spread across dry farmland with a village on the horizon.

Portugal Imported 36 Percent of the Electricity It Used in August, While Solar Touched a New Peak of 3,850 Megawatts

REN's August data shows renewables at 52 percent of consumption, non-renewables at 12 percent and imports at 36 percent, with cross-border flow from Spain setting a record above 5,200 MW. Wind and solar both ran below their historical productivity.

The Portugal Brief 02 Sep 2026

A glowing cyan circuit-board schematic lit from below on a dark surface, used to represent online financial fraud and digital deception.

The CMVM Warns That Investment Scammers Now Arrive With AI Video, and It Never Writes to Anyone on WhatsApp

Portugal's securities regulator says fraudsters are using fabricated videos and news items carrying the faces of public figures and the logos of real institutions. Its own contacts come only from the cmvm.pt domain, and never through WhatsApp.

The Portugal Brief 02 Sep 2026

Beef cattle grazing on walled green pasture below a low volcanic hill at Guadalupe on Graciosa in the Azores, under a heavy grey sky.

Brazilian Beef, Poultry and Honey Stop Entering the European Union on Thursday, and Brussels Says the Reason Is Antibiotics

Nobody found a contaminated shipment. Brazil simply failed to make the EU list of countries that have proved compliance with the 2019 antimicrobial rules, and the deadline is 3 September. Poultry and honey have written assurances; beef does not.

The Portugal Brief 02 Sep 2026

Riders in traditional Portuguese dress on grey Lusitano horses in the sand arena of the Feira Nacional do Cavalo at Golega, with spectators behind.

Keeping a Horse or Donkey in Portugal

The compulsory equine passport, the microchip in the left side of the neck, the 7.92 euro fee, and the paper route that closed on 1 July.

The Portugal Brief 02 Sep 2026

An aerial view of the port of Sines in southern Portugal, with container cranes, quays and the chimneys of the industrial complex on the skyline.

Repsol Collects the Operating Title for Two 300,000-Tonne Polymer Plants at Sines, a Year Late and 173 Million Euros Above the 2021 Figure

The Título Digital de Exploração Industrial for the Alba project is handed over at the Sines complex on Wednesday morning. The two units make polypropylene and linear low-density polyethylene, and Repsol's own project page still promises a start-up in the fourth quarter of 2025.

The Portugal Brief 02 Sep 2026

The lit shopfront of a Bertrand Livreiros bookshop inside a Portuguese shopping centre, with tables of books, shelves and customers visible inside.

Portugal's 30 Euro Book Voucher Closed Its Second Run With 45,075 Books Bought, and Three in Four Eligible Teenagers Never Claimed One

The Culture Ministry calls the 2026 Cheque-Livro the programme's best year yet: 52,448 vouchers issued, 85.9 percent of them spent. Against a beneficiary universe of 207,086 young people born in 2007 and 2008 that is a take-up of one in four, and the bookshop network shrank.

The Portugal Brief 02 Sep 2026

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