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The white classical facade and columned portico of the Palacio de Sao Bento in Lisbon under a deep blue sky, the Portuguese flag flying and a yellow minibus on the tram tracks below.

Narana Coissoro, Born in Goa and Thirteen Years the CDS Leader in Parliament, Has Died at 94

Born in Portuguese India in 1931, he read law at Coimbra, took his doctorate in London, sat in eight legislatures, led the CDS parliamentary group from 1978 to 1991 and was a vice-president of the Assembly from 1999 to 2005.

The Portugal Brief 30 Aug 2026

A three-storey modernist concrete social security district building with louvred windows and a roof tower, street trees in front and Portuguese-plated cars parked along the kerb.

Portugal Publishes the Rulebook for Its Single Social Benefit: 15 Hours of Community Work a Week, 20 From the Third Renewal

Portaria 394/2026/1 fills in the prestacao social unica, which absorbs thirteen benefits including the RSI from 31 December. Reference value 50 percent of the IAS, a 13.43 euro voucher per 20 hours performed, and transport, meals and insurance owed by the promoter.

The Portugal Brief 30 Aug 2026

The grey metal and glass frontage of the Policia Judiciaria national headquarters in Lisbon, with a taller office tower and its curved roof canopy rising behind.

A Serving Coordinator Has Reported Portugal's Chief Detective to the Attorney General Over a 2015 Recording He Swore Never Existed

The PGR has sent the complaint against national director Carlos Cabreiro to the Lisbon DIAP. At issue is a surveillance operation on the A5 in October 2015 that PJ inspectors told a court never produced a recording, and internal paperwork that says otherwise.

The Portugal Brief 30 Aug 2026

The Portuguese Navy frigate NRP Bartolomeu Dias, pennant number F333, under way on open blue water with its radar mast and helicopter deck visible.

Portugal Sets Up a Twenty-One Person Office to Spend €5.84 Billion of EU Defence Loans, and Its Chief May Sign Off Transfers of Any Size

Resolução do Conselho de Ministros 175/2026 creates the Estrutura Nacional SAFE: a coordinator-general, three programme coordinators, two team leaders and fifteen technical staff, funded from inside the existing defence budget, with a mandate to 30 June 2031.

The Portugal Brief 30 Aug 2026

Praia de Albarquel in Setúbal, one of the five contested beaches, with thatched sun umbrellas, bathers, yachts moored in the Sado estuary and the Arrábida hills beyond.

Hundreds Turned Setúbal's Main Square Into a Beach on Saturday, Because a Private Estate Wants a Court to Declare Five Real Ones Its Own

Sociedade Palácio da Comenda has been suing since July 2025 to have Rasca, Comenda, Rainha, Maria Esguelha and Albarquel declared private. Lei 54/2005 makes it prove ownership before 31 December 1864, and the public right of passage survives even if it wins.

The Portugal Brief 30 Aug 2026

Two black and white dairy cows walking along a narrow tarmac lane between green pastures on an Azorean hillside, with the Atlantic behind them and a cattle warning sign.

Unileite Trims Another Two Cents From São Miguel's Milk Price, and the Azores Farm Federation Puts the Year's Loss at €15 Million

September is the second general step down on the island this year, after Bel's 1.5 cents and August cuts by Lactogal, Insulac and Prolacto. Jorge Rita says diesel is rising 16.3 cents a litre, and the €23 million of war-related aid paid on the mainland never reached the Azores.

The Portugal Brief 29 Aug 2026

The white panelled facade of the Policia Judiciaria headquarters in Lisbon, with the force's name and badge beside the entrance and flags flying to the right.

Portugal Asked Google, Meta and Six Other Platforms for User Data 4,012 Times in a Year, and Four in Every Ten Requests Came Back Empty

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.

The Portugal Brief 29 Aug 2026

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