Portugal's diploma barring under-16s from social media without verified parental consent is expected to reach a final vote this autumn, with age checks tied to the Chave Móvel Digital. A French court's 14 August rejection of a similar ban shows how hard the verification piece is.
The Government has opened a €45 million Compete 2030 line for Portugal's Collaborative Laboratories and Technology and Innovation Centres, replacing Recovery-Plan money that expired on 1 July. Applications from the Norte, Centro and Alentejo regions run until 15 October 2026.
Since 3 August, Portugal's old paper Bilhete de Identidade is no longer accepted as a travel document in the Schengen Area or the EU. It lacks the chip and machine-readable zone that EU rules now demand, so travellers must show a valid Citizen Card or passport — even if their BI is marked valid for
Legal changes of registered sex and name are climbing back toward their 2024 peak of 606, with Lisbon recording the most, according to Justice Ministry data reported by Expresso. The trend comes as Parliament advances bills to reimpose a medical requirement the 2018 self-determination law had scrapp
At Alfouvar, near Sintra, a MEO teleport of more than 60 antennas is bidding to join IRIS² — the EU's €10.6 billion secure-satellite constellation, conceived as a sovereign answer to Starlink. If chosen, MEO would add up to 25 new dishes, with certification due by the end of the year.
Lisbon and Madrid have told the European Commission they will not convert their railways from the wide Iberian gauge to Europe's standard, calling a switch that Spain prices at some €30 billion and 30 years of works economically unjustifiable. The new Lisbon–Porto and Lisbon–Madrid high-speed lines
Fire and money dominate the week: a Valpaços blaze takes 15,000 hectares, Portugal pays about 25% more than Italy for frigates, the President sends the new asylum law to the Constitutional Court, growth holds at 2.5% but slips out of the EU's top three, and inflation eases to 3.0%.
