🇵🇹 Daily Portugal news for expats & investors — FREE Subscribe

The Portugal Brief

Sign in Subscribe

Latest

António Costa Opens an Unofficial Kremlin Back Channel as European Council President — Top Adviser Logs Two Calls With a Putin-Linked Russian Official as EU Leaders Split Over the Surprise Outreach

António Costa Opens an Unofficial Kremlin Back Channel as European Council President — Top Adviser Logs Two Calls With a Putin-Linked Russian Official as EU Leaders Split Over the Surprise Outreach

Portugal's former prime minister António Costa, now in his second year as president of the European Council, has spent the last week handling the most significant foreign-policy storm of his Brussels mandate. Bloomberg reported on 17 June 2026 that...

Surgical team in scrubs and masks viewed from below an operating-room light — 2026 guide to the Cartão Europeu de Seguro de Doença (EHIC) from Segurança Social.

Requesting the Cartão Europeu de Seguro de Doença (European Health Insurance Card) in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the Segurança Social Issuance, the Three-Year Validity and Reciprocal SNS Cover Across the EU/EEA/Switzerland

Practical 2026 guide to the Cartão Europeu de Seguro de Doença — the free 3-year card the Segurança Social issues for medically necessary public-sector care across the EU, EEA, Switzerland and the UK. The Segurança Social Direta online flow, the CPS backstop and what the card does not cover.

Neoclassical pediment and Ionic columns of a grand government building — AdC on 19 June 2026 endorsed the Liga Portugal + FPF centralised TV-rights model for 2028/29.

Autoridade da Concorrência Endorses the Liga Portugal and FPF Centralised TV-Rights Model for the 2028/29 Season — €250 Million Pot Splits 57.5% Sporting Merit, 20% Equal Shares, 17.5% Audience-and-Attendance and 5% Facilities

AdC on 19 June endorsed the Liga Portugal + FPF centralised TV-rights model for the 2028/29 season — an ~€250M annual pot split 57.5% sporting merit, 20% equal shares, 17.5% audience-and-attendance, 5% facilities. The clearance comes subject to multi-operator lot structures.