Good morning. Here is your Sunday briefing for 20 September 2026: the day's essential Portugal stories for residents, expats and anyone keeping an eye on the country, running from a
Requests for a CITE opinion on parental dismissals fall on women ten times more often than on men. The pay transparency directive was due in force on 7 June and Portugal's bill has not reached the Council of Ministers.
Two deliberations published this month say the same thing in different words: the record belongs to the patient, it is free, and no provider may route the decision through an insurer or an employer.
Three thousand two hundred more applicants than the whole of last year's second phase, and the official vacancy list starts at roughly one place for every two of them. Results land on 30 September.
The decree gave the government 30 days to publish the rules. Four months past that deadline there is still no rent ceiling, so a landlord cannot tell whether a contract qualifies for the tax exemption.
Twenty-seven tickets in the first three days, detours of up to 57 kilometres on some runs, and a mobility councillor who says he is measuring the policy by accidents that do not happen.
Coimbra is forecast to reach 37 degrees on Tuesday and Lisbon 35.4 on Monday. Three quarters of the mainland is at one of the top two fire danger levels on a Sunday in late September.
