📘 New Guide Published Resolving a Dispute Through the Julgados de Paz in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the Small-Claims Peace Courts, the €15,000 Limit, the €70 Fee, Mediation and
ANA faces a 17 July deadline to deliver the binding Technical Report for the roughly 8.5 billion-euro Luis de Camoes airport at Alcochete, due to open around 2037. The government approved up to 4.5 million euros to demilitarise the firing range on the site, where building limits now cover 71,000 hec
OIV figures show global wine consumption fell 2.7% to 208 million hectolitres - the lowest since 1957 - while production rose, leaving a surplus analysts liken to three years of drinking. Nine of the ten top markets shrank; only Brazil and Portugal (up 5.6%) grew, a double-edged result for Portugal'
A breakdown in the new electronic exam-marking system has forced the Education Ministry to move first-phase results from 14 to 17 July and the second phase to 20-24 July. Teachers describe chaos - markers drafted from other subjects, call-up lists naming retired and even deceased teachers, and answe
Portugal Ventures, the VC arm of the state development bank, invested over 2.75 million euros in Leiria's Sound Particles (1M), Brainr (1.5M) and Nutrivalley (250k) via PRR-financed calls. It lands in a record year: Portuguese start-ups had raised around 577 million euros by mid-2026, beating all of
A Guimaraes Council of Ministers package raises the cultural patronage tax deduction from 130% to 140%, widens eligible activities, and creates a National Patronage Platform. It also gives museum staff a 60-euro availability supplement, enlarges the National Culture Council, and earmarks 17.5 millio
With almost the entire mainland at very high or maximum fire risk and temperatures above 40C, Portugal activated the EU Civil Protection Mechanism on Friday and asked Spain and Morocco for Canadair water-bombers. Some 46 rural fires are burning; the Vouzela blaze alone has scorched over 7,000 hectar
