📘 New Guide Published Registering on the Portuguese Electoral Roll as a Foreign Resident in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the Recenseamento Eleitoral, the Three-Tier Reciprocity Map, the Junta de Freguesia Procedure and
Portugal's Plano Social para o Clima goes operational in June with €1.6 billion through 2032 — 75% EU and 25% national — routing €1.073 billion into building renovation and €516 million into transport to cushion the 2027 ETS2 carbon-price pass-through on heating and motor fuel.
The Ministério da Educação placed 19,172 teachers for 2026/27 — 4,776 new permanent entries plus 14,396 internal moves — with 5,454 directed to shortage zones; QZP 45 (Greater Lisbon) took 2,814 and QZP 46 (Setúbal) 1,124, and 3,090 went to primary teaching.
DGES locks 56,790 places in the 2026/27 concurso nacional — 34,841 university and 21,949 polytechnic — with applications opening 20 July; Medicine adds 62 to 1,656 (including a new UTAD degree), Educação Básica climbs 147 to 1,344, and the system carries 78,283 total seats.
Lisbon's Chelas-Beato drainage tunnel — the second of two storm-water bores in the €250 million Plano Geral de Drenagem — now completes in 2029, with Santa Apolónia metro facing an eight-month shutdown once LNEC releases the structural calculations.
Roberto Martínez closed Portugal's 26-player FIFA World Cup roster at the Cidade do Futebol on 8 June, with Cristiano Ronaldo captaining the Group F run against DR Congo (17 June), Uzbekistan (23 June) and Colombia (27-28 June); Pote out, Samu Costa in.
Brisav opens public consultation on the Porto-Oiã high-speed rail subsections 4 and 5 via the Participa portal on 8 June, with 15 working days to test APA's December 2025 rejection over the Gaia station relocation to Vilar do Paraíso and the twin-bridge Douro crossing.
