Good morning. Here is your Friday briefing for 11 September 2026: the day's essential Portugal stories for residents, expats and anyone keeping an eye on the country, running from an
IPMA cites the persistence of high maximum temperatures. Evora is forecast at 37.9 degrees on Sunday, Lisbon at 36.4, and Lisbon's overnight minimum climbs from 17.5 to 21.2 across the weekend.
The main defendant faces 29 charges including six of torture and five of rape; the second faces seven. Prosecutors say images of the abuse were shared in WhatsApp groups with dozens of other PSP officers.
BlackRoute and Ethiack delivered Digital Sentinel and AI Ethical Hacking to the Cyberdefence Operations Command. Both went into use in June and were validated by ARTE and the European Commission on 31 August.
Miguel Aguiar told ECO that several candidates to replace Lisbon have surfaced in recent months. He also set out what replaces the recovery plan vouchers, and why the startup law needs a definition of a scale-up.
The European Commission's payment monitor was updated on Thursday. Portugal has received 5.43 billion euros, of which 3.8 billion are interim payments tied to invoices, against a European average of 28.4 percent.
The finance inspectorate audited how Portugal's anti-corruption regime is applied across 38 public entities in 2024. Nearly all had the required documents; a large share were not doing what the documents say.
