Three Portuguese tech-infrastructure signals landed within hours on 4 May 2026: Vibrancy Studios picked Lisbon as its first office outside Germany, Guimarães added a national advanced-computing site, and U Lisboa released Evaristo.ai for plain Portuguese. Evening read.
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The latest Portugal news, analysis, and what it means for expats and residents.
President Seguro signed the new Lei da Nacionalidade on 3 May 2026, doubling naturalisation residency to 10 years for non-EU/CPLP applicants, raising it to 7 years for EU and CPLP citizens, and tightening birth-right citizenship to a 5-year parental residency test.
BPI CEO João Pedro Oliveira e Costa rejected Bank of Portugal concerns over the youth-credit programme, telling reporters the bank sees 'nenhum nível de preocupação'. BPI booked €133 million in Q1 net profit, down 2 percent. The supervisor is preparing tighter macroprudential mortgage rules.
S&P Global Ratings projects aviation kerosene will peak at $211.7 per barrel in May 2026 — up 114 percent in two months. Goldman Sachs sees Hormuz disruption taking 500,000 b/d offline with 23 percent of European jet-fuel exposure in play, and Lisbon has flagged an end-August shortage risk.
INE's industrial production index rose 3.2 percent year-on-year in March 2026 after a storm-hit -2.9 percent in February. Intermediate goods led at +5.2 percent and capital goods at +6.4 percent, but Q1 2026 closed at zero growth as energy output fell 4.6 percent on the year.
