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Portugal Lost 210,000 Farm Workers in 30 Years — Now 40 Per Cent of Those Who Remain Are Foreign

The Quiet Exodus Portugal's agricultural workforce has been halved in a single generation. A comprehensive study by consultancy Consulai, drawing on data from INE, the Bank of Portugal, Eurostat, and the Agricultural Census, documents a decline from...

The Portugal Brief 11 Apr 2026

Fewer Companies Born, More Going Bust — Portugal's Q1 2026 Entrepreneurship Data Flashes Warning Signs

The Numbers Portugal created 14,750 new companies in the first quarter of 2026 — a decline of 5.9 per cent compared to the same period last year, according to data from Informa D&B. That translates to 928 fewer businesses entering the economy....

The Portugal Brief 11 Apr 2026

Portugal's NHS Is Creating a Two-Tier Healthcare System — Private Patients Wait Days, SNS Patients Wait a Year

The Same Clinic, Two Different Realities A woman in Lisbon needs a mammography. If she pays out of pocket — between EUR 30 and EUR 200 — she can book one within a week at any of Portugal's major private healthcare groups. If she holds an SNS...

The Portugal Brief 11 Apr 2026

OECD Tells Portugal: Cut Taxes on Low Wages, Tax Property Instead — But No Government Wants to Do It

The OECD's latest economic review of Portugal lands with a challenge that is simultaneously obvious in its logic and treacherous in its politics: tax property more, tax wages less. The organisation's Fundamentals for Growth and Competitiveness 2026...

The Portugal Brief 10 Apr 2026

CGD Turns 150 — Montenegro Rules Out Privatisation as Economist Warns 'US Is No Longer the Safe Haven'

Portugal's largest bank turned 150 years old on Friday — and the occasion drew a prime minister, an economist with a pointed warning about the United States, and a quiet but firm declaration that one of Western Europe's last surviving state-owned...

The Portugal Brief 10 Apr 2026

Government Scraps Court of Auditors Prior Approval for 90% of Public Contracts — Watchdog Warns of Weakened Oversight

Portugal's Council of Ministers approved on Thursday a sweeping reform of the Tribunal de Contas — the country's supreme audit institution — that will exempt more than 90 percent of all public contracts from mandatory prior approval. The change...

The Portugal Brief 10 Apr 2026

Portugal's Nationality Law Sits on the President's Desk — Three Scenarios for What Happens Next

Parliament doubled the residency requirement for citizenship to 10 years on April 1. The decree now sits with President Seguro, who can sign it, veto it, or send it to the Constitutional Court.

The Portugal Brief 09 Apr 2026

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