Education Minister Fernando Alexandre says pushing the start of the secondary school year back by a week is 'on the table', giving teachers time to recover after a marking season disrupted by Portugal's first all-digital national exams. A platform outage locked graders out of some 300,000 scripts an
Portugal's minimum wage is set to rise to €970 in 2027, but the Secretary of State for Labour wants more and unions are pressing for €1,000 to €1,050. Employers and economists urge caution, warning that lifting the floor too fast into a stagnant economy would squeeze the pay of workers just above it
Portugal has submitted what it calls the seventh and final revision of its €21.9 billion Recovery and Resilience Plan to Brussels, keeping the total unchanged while raising some project targets and trimming others. With 75 percent of milestones met and a 2026 spending deadline near, it is a race to
On the 75th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention, the Jesuit Refugee Service is urging Lisbon to reactivate the EU resettlement and relocation programmes Portugal suspended, citing administrative strain. Director André Costa Jorge invokes Aristides de Sousa Mendes and Portugal's self-image as
Environment and Energy Minister Maria da Graça Carvalho has asked the regulator ERSE to study capping the commercial margins fuel firms add at the pump. Galp's co-CEO calls the idea one that 'doesn't seem to make sense', even as the group's half-year profit jumped 44 percent to 812 million euros and
A new INE survey finds that close to 40 percent of Portuguese children aged five to fourteen are overweight or obese, with one in eight — around 132,000 — already obese. Nearly 45 percent regularly eat fast food, ultra-processed products or sugary drinks, and rates run highest in the Azores, the Nor
Good morning. Here is your Tuesday briefing for 28 July 2026 — six stories shaping Portugal today, from a record year of state spending to a Portuguese bid for Europe's answer
