The Europol and Eurojust SIRIUS report puts Portugal tenth in the EU on volume and third from bottom on success, at 59 percent against a 76 percent average. It filed five emergency requests all year; France filed 19,186. The mandatory e-Evidence regime took over on 18 August.
A study for the European Parliament's fisheries committee logs six allocation criteria in Portugal and no environmental one. Undulate ray counts crew members, tuna runs on an Azores island key, sardine splits at 9 and 16 metres. Historical catch decides the rest.
Decreto-Lei n.o 171/2026 rewrites the Securities Code from 1 September. The free float needed for a listing drops from 25 percent to 10, multiple-vote shares get a disclosure regime, and payment for order flow is banned outright.
The Ministry of Justice has opened applications for the post of Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union. An evaluation panel shortlists three, parliament's European Affairs Committee hears them, and the government then picks one.
Since 3 August, Portugal's old paper Bilhete de Identidade is no longer accepted as a travel document in the Schengen Area or the EU. It lacks the chip and machine-readable zone that EU rules now demand, so travellers must show a valid Citizen Card or passport — even if their BI is marked valid for
At Alfouvar, near Sintra, a MEO teleport of more than 60 antennas is bidding to join IRIS² — the EU's €10.6 billion secure-satellite constellation, conceived as a sovereign answer to Starlink. If chosen, MEO would add up to 25 new dishes, with certification due by the end of the year.
Lisbon and Madrid have told the European Commission they will not convert their railways from the wide Iberian gauge to Europe's standard, calling a switch that Spain prices at some €30 billion and 30 years of works economically unjustifiable. The new Lisbon–Porto and Lisbon–Madrid high-speed lines
