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The Government Adds Another €1.5 Million to Amália, Its Home-Grown Public-Sector AI, and Launches a Gov.IA Portal

Prime Minister Luís Montenegro has added €1.5 million to Amália, Portugal's state-backed Portuguese-language AI, taking total investment to €7 million through 2027. The open-source model scales to 22 billion parameters, runs on the Deucalion supercomputer, and comes with a new Gov.IA portal.

The Portugal Brief 06 Jul 2026

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Portugal Meet Spain in a World Cup Last-16 Iberian Derby Tonight, After a Late Turnaround Past Croatia

Portugal face Spain in the World Cup last 16 on Monday at 8 p.m. Lisbon time in Arlington, Texas, after a 2-1 stoppage-time turnaround past Croatia. The Iberian neighbours last met in the 2025 Nations League final, which Portugal won on penalties. A quarter-final place is at stake.

The Portugal Brief 06 Jul 2026

The exterior of a Portuguese centro de saúde (health centre) under a clear blue sky

Portugal Widens Its Psychologist and Nutritionist Vouchers to Everyone Aged 12 to 35 and Lifts Them to €40

A new edition of the Cheque-Psicólogo and Cheque-Nutricionista opens the vouchers to everyone aged 12 to 35 — not just students — and raises each to €40, widening a subsidised route to mental-health and nutrition appointments under the Cuida-te programme.

The Portugal Brief 06 Jul 2026

An electric Metrobus bus rapid transit vehicle at a stop in Porto, Portugal

Government Revives a Minho Rapid-Transit Plan With an €80 Million Metrobus to Link Guimarães and Braga by 2030

The government has approved an €80 million bus rapid transit line to link Guimarães and Braga, reviving a Minho rapid-transit project that fell out of Portugal's EU recovery plan earlier this year. The first phase is due by the end of 2030.

The Portugal Brief 06 Jul 2026

The triumphal Arco da Rua Augusta and the yellow arcaded buildings of Praca do Comercio in downtown Lisbon, with crowds and buses gathered in the square under a cloudy sky

Portugal Has Become Brazilian Business's Doorway Into Europe — but the Bureaucracy Still Tests Their Patience

Brazilians are now Portugal's largest foreign community, and a growing share come to build businesses. With the Mercosur-EU deal in force, Portugal is pitching itself as their gateway to Europe — backed by a €1bn fund — even as AIMA's permit backlog tests everyone's patience.

The Portugal Brief 05 Jul 2026

The schist village of Piodao in Portugal's interior at dusk, its dark stone houses clustered on a green terraced hillside with warm street lights glowing among them

As August Approaches, Portugal's Hollowed-Out Interior Waits for Its Emigrants to Come Home

Each summer, interior villages inhabited mostly by the elderly fill again as emigrants return from France, Luxembourg and Switzerland for the festas. The annual homecoming is a window into deep depopulation — and, for expats eyeing cheap inland stone houses, a caution as much as an opportunity.

The Portugal Brief 05 Jul 2026

The neoclassical facade of the Palacio de Sao Bento in Lisbon, seat of Portugal's Assembly of the Republic, with the Portuguese flag flying above its columned portico under a clear sky

Portugal's 'Trabalho XXI' Labour Reform Died in Parliament. Here's What Fell With It — and Why AI Is the Next Battleground

On 19 June, Parliament rejected the government's Trabalho XXI package after Chega joined the left to vote it down. The individual hours bank, longer fixed-term contracts and easier dismissals all fell. Experts say the next attempt must finally tackle AI and algorithmic management at work.

The Portugal Brief 05 Jul 2026

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