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The white panelled facade and main entrance of the Policia Judiciaria headquarters in Lisbon, with the force's name and badge on the wall and flags beside the door

The National Director of the Judicial Police Is Under Investigation Over What He Told a Court About Wiretaps in the Rui Pinto Case

The complaint came from a coordinator inside the force with thirty years of service. Two allegations: evidence that no intercepts were made, and an intercept ordered after prosecutors had forbidden it.

The Portugal Brief 15 Sep 2026

The Praca do Comercio in Lisbon on a clear day, with the Rua Augusta triumphal arch, the equestrian statue of King Jose I and the yellow government wings around the square

For Four Decades the Constitutional Court Had No List of the Officials Who Owed It an Asset Declaration, and It Has Now Put That in Writing

Public bodies were supposed to report every appointment since 1995 and largely did not. Without that list the court could count what arrived, but never work out what was missing.

The Portugal Brief 15 Sep 2026

The floodlit neoclassical facade of the Assembleia da Republica in Lisbon at night, with a stone lion on its plinth in the foreground and lit arcades below the pediment

Only Georgia and Russia Fell Further: Portugal Lands Among Europe's Largest Democratic Retreats Since 2020

Representation still puts the country in the world's top 20. Rule of Law dropped twelve places, Participation twenty, and freedom of expression recorded one of the ten steepest five-year falls anywhere.

The Portugal Brief 15 Sep 2026

The decayed stone facade and ironwork balconies of the abandoned Caldas de Moledo hotel in the Douro valley, with plants growing from the balcony ledges.

An Abandoned Thermal Spa Above the Douro Reopens This Year on Four Million Euros, and One of Its Two Bath Houses Will Stay in Public Use

The Termas das Caldas de Moledo, between Peso da Régua and Mesão Frio inside the Alto Douro Vinhateiro world heritage landscape, become the seventeenth thermal facility in the Porto and North region. The rest of the complex goes to a REVIVE concession.

The Portugal Brief 15 Sep 2026

Young trees along the Avenida Infante Dom Henrique in Lisbon beside the cruise terminal, with the dome of Santa Engrácia in the distance.

Two Weeks Remain to Object to Lisbon's 16E Fast Tram, and Carris Quotes 160 Million Euros for It on One Page and 183 Million on Another

The environmental consultation on the eleven-kilometre line from the Praça do Comércio to the Parque Tejo closes on 30 September. APA calls the project environmentally viable if its effects are mitigated; residents at Monday's session said it would assassinate the Parque das Nações.

The Portugal Brief 15 Sep 2026

The Portugal Telecom head office in Lisbon, a long terraced facade with a rooftop PT sign and a satellite dish behind it, cars and pedestrians on the street below.

MEO Says a Mass Attack Degraded Its International Network on Monday, Six Days After ANACOM Opened the Rulemaking for the Sector's Cybersecurity Regulation

Downdetector logged a peak above 7,200 fault reports at 18:19, and problems at NOS, Vodafone and Digi too. Portugal's cybersecurity regime has been in force since April, and it gives an operator 24 hours to file an initial notification with its sector regulator.

The Portugal Brief 14 Sep 2026

The Hospital Curry Cabral in Lisbon seen from the street, its yellow blocks with red window surrounds standing behind a low wall, with cars parked outside and a crossing in the foreground.

The WHO Counted Sixty-Six Clade Ib Mpox Cases in Portugal in Six Weeks, More Than Germany, France and Britain Together

Monday's situation report puts Portugal third in Europe on cumulative clade Ib cases and first on recent ones. The last national bulletin the Direcção-Geral da Saúde published is dated 31 May 2025, and it says Portugal had recorded no clade Ib cases at all.

The Portugal Brief 14 Sep 2026

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