Good morning. Here is your Saturday briefing for 5 September 2026: the day's essential Portugal stories for residents, expats and anyone keeping an eye on the country, running from the
Last year's definitive intake was 2,231. The vice-rector calls the internationalisation almost unstoppable, points to a Macau legal code drafted at Coimbra and a Cabo Verde medical pipeline, and regrets that African students cannot be given reserved places.
The Terreiro de Armas follows in October and the Patio da Botica by December. Heritage chief Joao Soalheiro says a four million euro contract had to be cut because going ahead as designed would have destroyed the fabric it was meant to restore.
Twelve million euros for growers who cannot sell this harvest, plus a 100 million euro credit line for cooperatives. Leitao Amaro calls it a one-off and promises a permanent fund, while Casa do Douro calls the support not ideal but the possible.
The ANMP's renewable-energy section approved a Tax Authority formula for dividing IMI revenue where a dam, wind park or solar plant crosses a municipal boundary, and will ask to join the technical committee that decides the acceleration zones.
An enforcement action and a criminal complaint against the terminal operator's managers. FlixBus says a 20 August access date already slipped, its 60-day capacity declarations are about to expire, and there is still not one journey on sale from Sete Rios.
The ministry says its backlog plan has cleared 26,000 delayed files since June, and Friday's Council of Ministers signed the pay diploma that reaches payslips in November, backdated to 1 July. The STRN, which did not sign, calls the recovery opaque.
