Portugal's Mobility and Transport Fund has opened its first funding calls — about €2 million for urban logistics, taxi-fleet decarbonisation and school mobility — the opening tranche of a €14.8 million scheme run by the IMT under the Ministry of Infrastructure and Housing.
The Council of Ministers has approved a one-off Temporary Solidarity Contribution on the Oil Sector, taxing at 33% the part of 2026 profits that runs more than 20% above the 2024–2025 average. The revenue is earmarked for shielding vulnerable households from fuel-price rises and cutting fossil-fuel
The EU's AI Act moves into its enforcement phase on 2 August, with fines reaching €35 million or 7% of global turnover. In Portugal the regulator is a late-chosen ANACOM, now racing to build the teams to police transparency rules, general-purpose models and high-risk AI.
More than 20,000 re-grade requests — triple last year's — have hit Portugal's national exams after the first all-digital marking, with final results due 7 August and university places on the line.
The task force that inherited nearly a million immigration files has cleared all but about 30,000 — the harder cases that need documents, checks or a direct call before AIMA can decide.
Groupe Barrière, the French gaming and hospitality group, took over the Casino da Póvoa from Estoril-Sol on 1 May and is planning a two-to-three-year makeover of the 1930s building, new dining and live shows, while keeping about 220 staff. It is also preparing a hotel-and-residential project in Lisb
A 15-country study commissioned by Autotrader finds Portuguese drivers spend the equivalent of 12 days and 15 hours a year in their cars — nearly six hours a week. Portugal ranks mid-table, above Spain but well below South Africa, in a reminder of how car-dependent life is outside Lisbon and Porto.
