The week's most important Portugal stories, curated from our daily coverage: the cabinet sending both TAP bidders back for three weeks, Fitch's upgrade to A+, a rewritten public contracts code, a citizenship test that exists only on paper, and a food basket back above 254 euros.
Porto's ten-year mobility plan goes to a vote on Tuesday with a diagnosis that puts the cost of illegal parking at 100 million euros a year, the same meeting weighs a 4.98 million euro towing contract with a single bidder, and the mayor says shared scooters are a problem he means to shrink.
Good morning. Here is your Sunday briefing for 6 September 2026: the day's essential Portugal stories for residents, expats and anyone keeping an eye on the country, running from a
Prosecutors say the defendant practised from a Braga office from 1993 to July 2022 without ever finishing a law degree, using forged university certificates to register in 1992. The count stops at 141 only because of the five-year limitation period.
The alert came at 19:40 on Saturday and the fire was still running at four in the morning, with 102 vehicles committed. A second fire at Ponte de Sor was half contained, and seven districts remain under a yellow heat warning.
The old Escola Primaria do Gremio sits 300 metres from the metro. Academia 24 now runs 75 beds across three residences, and the federation's president says the answer has to be found in the municipalities around the city.
Eighty-five thousand homes, 53,600 E-LAR vouchers, 204 kilometres of water main and 952 zero-emission buses. The first ministry-level reckoning after the plan ran out of calendar counts inputs thoroughly and outcomes sparingly.
