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Alentejo Earmarks €5.3 Million to Restore the Region's Historic Buildings and Museums

Alentejo Earmarks €5.3 Million to Restore the Region's Historic Buildings and Museums

Alentejo 2030 is opening a €5.3 million call, up to 85% EU-funded, to restore classified buildings and museums across the region, with Central Alentejo and Évora taking the largest share.

The Portugal Brief 05 Aug 2026

The neoclassical facade of the Palacio de Sao Bento, seat of Portugal's Assembleia da Republica, with the national flag flying, in Lisbon

Montenegro Rebukes Spain's Migration Policy While Defending Portugal's 'Dignity Without a Pull Effect' Approach

Speaking as EU interior ministers met over the Ceuta crisis, PM Luís Montenegro criticised policies that create a 'pull effect' and defended Portugal's orderly-but-humane line. Lisbon still declined to back a call to suspend Spain from Schengen.

The Portugal Brief 05 Aug 2026

The EU's AI Act Reaches Its Enforcement Phase, and Portugal Turns to a Late-Chosen ANACOM to Police the New Rules

The EU's AI Act Reaches Its Enforcement Phase, and Portugal Turns to a Late-Chosen ANACOM to Police the New Rules

The EU's AI Act moves into its enforcement phase on 2 August, with fines reaching €35 million or 7% of global turnover. In Portugal the regulator is a late-chosen ANACOM, now racing to build the teams to police transparency rules, general-purpose models and high-risk AI.

The Portugal Brief 03 Aug 2026

Brussels Reopens an Infringement Case, Telling Portugal to Fix Gaps in Its Rules on Predictable Working Conditions

Brussels Reopens an Infringement Case, Telling Portugal to Fix Gaps in Its Rules on Predictable Working Conditions

The European Commission says Portugal has not fully transposed the EU directive on transparent and predictable working conditions, flagging gaps in the Labour Code on trial periods, on-call notice and hiring information.

The Portugal Brief 27 Jul 2026

The Assembleia da República building (Palácio de São Bento) in Lisbon under a clear blue sky

Portugal Races to Spend Its €22 Billion Recovery Plan Before an Unmovable August Deadline

Portugal's €22.2 billion PRR recovery plan must be fully executed by 31 August 2026, a deadline Brussels will not move. By early July about €13.19 billion had been paid out, roughly 60% of the approved value, and projects worth an estimated €516 million are set to lose their financing because they c

The Portugal Brief 18 Jul 2026

The cover of a Portuguese European Union passport, dark red with gold lettering reading União Europeia, Portugal, Passaporte

Brussels Opens Two Infringement Cases Against Portugal Over Untransposed Migration Directives

The European Commission has sent Portugal letters of formal notice for missing the deadlines to transpose two EU migration laws — the revised Single Permit Directive on residence-and-work permits and the recast Reception Conditions Directive for asylum seekers. Lisbon has two months to respond befor

The Portugal Brief 15 Jul 2026

The sculpted concrete facade of the Palacio da Justica courthouse in Lisbon

European Prosecutors Charge 15 in a €3.5 Million Scheme to Rig Recovery-Funded IT Contracts

The European Public Prosecutor's Office has charged 15 defendants — 12 people and three companies — in 'Operation Nexus,' an alleged scheme to rig PRR-funded IT tenders at a public university, costing the EU over €3.5 million. Two are in preventive detention.

The Portugal Brief 15 Jul 2026

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