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Avenida Samora Machel in Maputo looking towards the neoclassical city hall, with the Mozambican flag flying above its pediment and cars parked under flowering trees

Mozambique Signed a Deal on Monday to Digitise the Military Archives in Maputo, Then Asked for the Ones Held in Portugal

Nyeleti Mondlane says the records of operations, troop numbers and detention sites sit in Portuguese archives, and that without them the liberation struggle is written from one source. Nuno Melo answered with a principle rather than a commitment.

The Portugal Brief 14 Sep 2026

The white frontage of a Portuguese state secondary school with a terracotta tiled roof, solar panels on the roof and a paved courtyard with clipped trees in front

Portugal's Mathematicians Want the National Tests to Count Again, After PISA Put Fifteen-Year-Olds Below Their 2003 Score

Four hundred and sixty points in mathematics, twelve down and below 2003. The society's answer is tests with consequences, credit hours for support, and textbook certification.

The Portugal Brief 14 Sep 2026

The arched stone entrance of Portugal's Constitutional Court in Lisbon, with the words Tribunal Constitucional carved into the lintel above the doorway

The Constitutional Court Holds the First Request in Portuguese History to Dissolve a Party for Extremism, and Has Not Yet Found Time to Decide It

A judge of the court set out the difficulty in public: is a Nazi salute enough, or billboards against an ethnic group? She also said the court's own rulings are sometimes simply ignored.

The Portugal Brief 14 Sep 2026

The plenary chamber of the Assembleia da Republica in Lisbon seen from above during a full sitting, with members at their curved wooden benches beneath the painted vault

Sixty of the 398 People Who Entered a Portuguese Cabinet Since 1976 Were Women, and Half of Them Arrived With a Doctorate

Women ministers are twice as likely as men to hold a doctorate, and the study reads that as a higher bar rather than a triumph. Most of them land in peripheral portfolios.

The Portugal Brief 14 Sep 2026

The neoclassical facade of the Palacio de Sao Bento in Lisbon under a grey sky, with the Portuguese flag flying above the pediment and the stone lion on the front steps

Portuguese Ministers Stay About 600 Days, and the Parties Now Recruit Specialists Without Giving Up the Nomination

A new study profiles every minister since 1976. Expertise has risen sharply, but the parties absorbed it rather than lost ground to it, and foreign affairs is still kept for the loyal.

The Portugal Brief 14 Sep 2026

The perimeter wall, gate and watchtower of a Portuguese prison, the Estabelecimento Prisional de Coimbra, seen from the empty road running alongside it.

More Than 150 Prisoners in Porto Put Their Names to a Complaint About the Food, and the Rulebook Gives the Prison Thirty Days

A collective complaint at the Custoias jail says the food is poor and blames it for recurring gastroenteritis. The prison says its nutritionist found no irregularity. Article 31 of the sentence execution code sets the standard, and a 2021 regulation sets the clock.

The Portugal Brief 13 Sep 2026

The Palacio de Sao Bento in Lisbon, seat of the Portuguese parliament, its white colonnaded portico and pediment under a clear blue sky with the national flag flying above.

Livre Opens Its Autumn Accusing the Government of Passing the Rejected Labour Package One Chapter at a Time

Parliament threw out Trabalho XXI on 19 June. At the party's autumn opening in Porto on Sunday, Isabel Mendes Lopes said the measures are returning separately, inside other people's bills, and named this week's parental leave committee stage as the first.

The Portugal Brief 13 Sep 2026

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