The Culture Ministry calls the 2026 Cheque-Livro the programme's best year yet: 52,448 vouchers issued, 85.9 percent of them spent. Against a beneficiary universe of 207,086 young people born in 2007 and 2008 that is a take-up of one in four, and the bookshop network shrank.
From 1 September the Banco Português de Fomento sells export credit insurance and issues State guarantees under a new brand, Fomento Trade, ending fifty-seven years in which COSEC held the mandate. The change was ordered in June 2022 and postponed twice.
Resolução do Conselho de Ministros 176/2026, gazetted on Monday and in force from Tuesday, adds Fronteira, Manteigas, Marvão, Nelas and Santa Comba Dão to the Territórios Resilientes annex and lifts the ceiling by 3,493,000 euros to 80,088,647 euros.
The government puts eight months of anti-fraud savings at 76.5 million euros, found by matching databases across Portuguese public bodies and European countries. Overseas pensioners have until 15 September to file proof of life.
Portugal filed its draft nature restoration plan with the European Commission on 28 August, three days before the Article 16 deadline and third of twenty-seven member states. The government's own statement counts the measures twice, at 375 and at 386.
Decreto Regulamentar Regional 16/2026/M froze ten categories of act inside a marked area of São Martinho from Saturday, down to repainting a wall. Article 52 of Lei 31/2014 gives owners a right to compensation, and the freeze runs to 29 August 2028.
Closing the 22nd PSD summer university at Castelo de Vide, the prime minister announced a Universidade de Bragança e do Norte Interior, a general election for school directors, and conceded that this year's digital exam marking did not go well.
