Good morning. Here is your Thursday briefing for 17 September 2026: the day's essential Portugal stories for residents, expats and anyone keeping an eye on the country, running from the
Maria do Ceu Patrao Neves thinks the industry's own call for rules should be taken at face value. She also thinks the geopolitics make a global pact unlikely, and that Europe should try anyway.
The association wants two things from the President: an audit of a compensation process the Church ran on itself, and the end of the limitation clock on child sexual abuse.
A laser beam cannot be jammed, and the only way to intercept one is to stand in its path, where you can be seen. LusoSpace is building both halves of that idea for the armed forces.
The Novobanco sale closed the file and brought in over 900 million. The fund holds 2.2 billion against liabilities more than three times that, and the levy that feeds it is under constitutional challenge.
Chega committed on Tuesday, the PS national secretariat on Wednesday. The vote falls on Friday, and the terms reach the contracts, the costs and the ministry's own reorganisation.
A taxi working a platform trip cannot street-hail, cannot use a rank and cannot drive in the bus lane. Bolt says enforcing that is somebody else's job.
