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Applications to Join Portugal's PSP Fall 13% Just as the Force Braces for a Wave of Retirements

The latest recruitment competition for PSP officers drew 2,945 applicants, 447 fewer than the previous edition — a 13% drop that lands just as an ageing force braces for some 900 retirements this year, with unions blaming low pay and poor conditions.

The Portugal Brief 10 Aug 2026

Portugal Drops the Sliding-Scale Cuts to Iberian Wolf Compensation and Will Now Pay for Missing and Newborn Animals

Portugal Drops the Sliding-Scale Cuts to Iberian Wolf Compensation and Will Now Pay for Missing and Newborn Animals

The government has rewritten the rules on how livestock farmers are compensated when the lobo ibérico (Iberian wolf) kills their animals, closing several gaps that producers had long complained left them out of pocket. The changes, reported at the...

The Portugal Brief 09 Aug 2026

Portugal Married More Couples in 2025 Than in Any Year Since 2010, Four in Five of Them at a Register Office

Portugal Married More Couples in 2025 Than in Any Year Since 2010, Four in Five of Them at a Register Office

Portugal saw more weddings in 2025 than in any year since 2010, the Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE, Statistics Portugal) has reported — a modest but clear rebound that public broadcaster RTP flagged at the weekend as a “record.”...

The Portugal Brief 09 Aug 2026

Tourism’s Weight in the Portuguese Economy Eases Off Its 2023 Record Even as the Sector Keeps Expanding

Tourism’s Weight in the Portuguese Economy Eases Off Its 2023 Record Even as the Sector Keeps Expanding

New INE data show tourism consumption slipped to 16.1% of GDP in 2025, just below its 2023 peak, as the sector grew a touch slower than the wider economy for the first time since the pandemic rebound.

The Portugal Brief 09 Aug 2026

Portugal’s Internal Administration Minister Will Stand Trial at the Court of Auditors Over €2,550 in Unbilled Police Travel

Portugal’s Internal Administration Minister Will Stand Trial at the Court of Auditors Over €2,550 in Unbilled Police Travel

Luís Neves refused to pay a €2,550 penalty over travel from his Judicial Police days, opting for a Court of Auditors trial — as the opposition demands his resignation and the prime minister stays silent.

The Portugal Brief 09 Aug 2026

Four Years On, Almost None of the €155 Million Pledged to Rebuild Serra da Estrela Has Been Spent

Four Years On, Almost None of the €155 Million Pledged to Rebuild Serra da Estrela Has Been Spent

President António José Seguro says the €155 million promised after the 2022 fire remains almost entirely unspent — a warning about Portugal’s disaster-recovery record as 40 councils sit under maximum fire risk.

The Portugal Brief 09 Aug 2026

The Capelinhos volcano cone and lighthouse on the coast of Faial island in the Azores, seen across green forested hillsides above the Atlantic Ocean

Faial Joins the Azores Infrasound Network That Detected the Tonga Eruption 16,000 Kilometres Away

Since 22 July, an infrasound station on Faial has joined sensors on Graciosa, São Jorge and Terceira, feeding the IVAR–CIVISA network that in 2022 detected the Hunga Tonga eruption more than 16,000 kilometres away.

The Portugal Brief 09 Aug 2026

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