Briefing
General Daily Briefing — Saturday, 1 August 2026
Good morning. Here is your Saturday briefing for 1 August 2026 — six stories shaping Portugal today, from a new chief at the tax office to a brewer’s shorter working week, plus
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Media Capital Slides Into a EUR1.6 Million Half-Year Loss After Betting on the World Cup and Its Newsroom
TVI's owner Media Capital fell to a EUR1.6 million first-half loss despite 4% revenue growth, after heavy spending on a busy news calendar and an extraordinary investment in the 2026 World Cup pushed costs up faster than income and lifted net debt to EUR41.2 million.
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Martifer Pays GBP9 Million to Close a Fifteen-Year-Old Glasgow Building Dispute, Clearing Its Last Big Liability
The Portuguese steel-structures group Martifer will pay GBP9 million (about EUR10.4 million) to settle a long-running Court of Session case over the Scottish Event Campus in Glasgow, closing what it calls its sole remaining contingent liability as a takeover battle plays out.
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Portugal Opens Just EUR30 Million of a Promised EUR100 Million for Its Energy-Hungry Factories
Portugal has opened only EUR30 million - down from EUR50 million last year - of the EUR100 million promised to help energy-intensive factories with EU carbon costs passed through in their electricity bills, leaving Portuguese industry near the bottom of Europe's support league.
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The Azores Log a Ninth Straight Month of Falling Overnight Stays as Local Lodging Empties
Tourist overnight stays in the Azores fell 3.8% in June, a ninth consecutive monthly decline, as local short-term rentals and rural tourism emptied out while hotels held on - and the Ponta Delgada Chamber of Commerce demanded an urgent response on air access and promotion.
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Super Bock Agrees a Phased 35-Hour Week and a 2.3% Pay Rise in a Five-Year Deal With Its Union
The Super Bock Group and the union Sintab have signed a five-year deal phasing the drinks maker's staff down to a 35-hour week and raising pay 2.3%, with a EUR75 minimum backdated to January - a rare private-sector move to the shorter week.
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An Engineer Takes the Helm of Portugal's Tax Authority, Ending Helena Borges's Eleven-Year Tenure
Mario Campos, a systems engineer who has spent a decade inside the tax office, became director-general of Portugal's Tax and Customs Authority on 1 August, ending Helena Borges's eleven-year tenure and making digital transformation and the fight against evasion his priorities.