The week's most important Portugal stories, curated from our daily coverage: the Return Law cleared by the Constitutional Court, a censure motion set for Tuesday, the rulebook for the single social benefit, and a September that resets mortgages, retail pay and the border.
A Porto court suspends the contracts from the Bolhão's 14 July auction, Pedro Duarte says his anti-crime plan comes together by year's end, Matosinhos borrows €40 million to build 500 affordable-rent homes, and the metrobus reaches its Recovery Plan deadline on Monday.
Good morning. Here is your Sunday briefing for 30 August 2026: the day's essential Portugal stories for residents, expats and anyone keeping an eye on the country, running from a
The foreign ministry located the two siblings but logged two new disappearances the same day. Across Nepal and Tibet the count published on Sunday morning stands at 750 dead and 3,044 missing, of whom 261 in Tibet are foreign nationals.
At Malta Lake in Poznan he crossed in 3:24.39, ahead of defending champion Balint Kopasz and Australia's Thomas Green. It is his tenth world medal in the distance, and he lines up again in the K1 5000 on Sunday.
The Saudi-Portuguese Business Council is in Lisbon until Tuesday. DigestAId, Ciberbit, ITGest and NBClinic sign memoranda at CIP on Monday, and the council's president points at the 2030 and 2034 World Cups as the reason sport is next.
Born in Portuguese India in 1931, he read law at Coimbra, took his doctorate in London, sat in eight legislatures, led the CDS parliamentary group from 1978 to 1991 and was a vice-president of the Assembly from 1999 to 2005.
