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The Pego power station in central Portugal seen from a distance, its two cooling towers and red and white striped chimney rising behind wooded hills and a village of white houses

Two Data Centres Beside the Old Pego Coal Plant Want More Grid Capacity Than They Were Given, and the Minister Says a Decision Could Land This Year

Energy, water and environmental impact are the three tests. Abrantes gets a fourth consideration of its own, because the coal plant that closed in 2021 left behind a connection sized for it.

The Portugal Brief 15 Sep 2026

A TAP Air Portugal Airbus A321neo registered CS-TXA parked on the apron at Lisbon airport under a deep blue sky, with boarding stairs at the rear door

Prosecutors Call the Collapse of the Old TAP Holding Accidental, and Azul's 189 Million Euro Claim Gets Harder

The insolvency administrators said the same thing in May. Azul argues the assets were moved to build a good TAP and a bad one; the holding was left with 23.8 million euros against 1.35 billion in claims.

The Portugal Brief 15 Sep 2026

The Portugal Telecom head office in Lisbon, a long terraced facade with a rooftop PT sign and a satellite dish behind it, cars and pedestrians on the street below.

MEO Says a Mass Attack Degraded Its International Network on Monday, Six Days After ANACOM Opened the Rulemaking for the Sector's Cybersecurity Regulation

Downdetector logged a peak above 7,200 fault reports at 18:19, and problems at NOS, Vodafone and Digi too. Portugal's cybersecurity regime has been in force since April, and it gives an operator 24 hours to file an initial notification with its sector regulator.

The Portugal Brief 14 Sep 2026

A Biedronka discount supermarket on a street corner in Poland, its yellow and red ladybird signs above a brick and brown-clad frontage, with cars parked outside

Poland Fined Jerónimo Martins 525 Million Zloty for Running a Pact That Kept Lorry Drivers From Changing Employer

The Polish competition regulator says the owner of Biedronka organised an agreement among the hauliers at its distribution centres not to hire one another's drivers, and enforced it by barring drivers who moved. Twenty-nine carriers and eight individuals were fined alongside it.

The Portugal Brief 14 Sep 2026

An aerial view of rows of solar panels spread across dry brown farmland in southern Portugal, with a village on the ridge in the distance

Lightsource bp Dropped Its 240 Million Euro Beira Solar Plant, and Shrank the Neighbouring One by 35 Percent

The assessors counted 479 cork and holm oaks and an Iberian imperial eagle. Reworking the plant to answer that, the promoter says, stopped adding up financially.

The Portugal Brief 14 Sep 2026

The historic Banco de Portugal building on Avenida dos Aliados in Porto, floodlit at night, its neoclassical stone facade topped by a pediment and rooftop statuary

Europe Is Debating Whether to Bring Its Gold Home From New York, and Portugal Quietly Finished That Job in 2021

The Dutch central bank has moved almost 100 tonnes out of North America, reopening the custody argument in Germany, Italy and Spain. Portugal's 382.6 tonnes have not changed since 2006, and its last New York holding went to the Banque de France five years ago.

The Portugal Brief 13 Sep 2026

A busy cafe terrace under umbrella pines at the Miradouro da Graca in Lisbon, with Sao Jorge castle on the hill behind and the 25 de Abril bridge in the distance

Portuguese Services Billed 2.1 Percent More in July and Sold 2.6 Percent Less, With Hotels and Restaurants Falling for a Fourth Month

INE's July services turnover release grew in euros and shrank in volume. Accommodation and catering posted its fourth consecutive year-on-year fall in the heart of the season, and the services employment index swung 2.8 points in a month to minus 1.3 percent.

The Portugal Brief 13 Sep 2026

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