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Eleven Districts Sit Under a Heat Warning Until Tuesday, and 62 Councils Are at Maximum Fire Danger Today

Coimbra is forecast to reach 37 degrees on Tuesday and Lisbon 35.4 on Monday. Three quarters of the mainland is at one of the top two fire danger levels on a Sunday in late September.

The Portugal Brief 20 Sep 2026

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The Day Portugal's Junior Doctors Queued in Five Halls to Claim a Specialty Is Over, and a Ranked List Decides October's Places Instead

ACSS has set out how the 2026 Internato Médico vacancy choice will run online. Candidates rank the posts they will accept and can revise the list until 23:59 the night before their lot is processed at 10:00. The ranking rule is unchanged, and speed of submission counts for nothing.

The Portugal Brief 20 Sep 2026

A Portuguese Army Pandur II wheeled armoured vehicle with the national flag on its hull, halted on open ground during a NATO exercise as other vehicles raise dust behind it

Portugal Raises Its 2026 Ukraine Ceiling to 207 Million Euros and Widens the List of Things the Money May Pay For From Ten Headings to Twenty-Three

Friday's gazette carries Resolução do Conselho de Ministros n.º 182/2026, which lifts the year's authorised spending on Ukraine from 130.4 million euros to 207.4 million and adds thirteen new headings, among them the reception of wounded people, munitions and an open catch-all clause.

The Portugal Brief 20 Sep 2026

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Five Student Residences in Lisbon and Porto, 883 Beds in All, Pass to a European Fund for a Reported 80 Million Euros

Nido Livensa has sold Nido Carcavelos, Ajuda, Santa Apolónia, Estoril and Asprela to the Ardian Rockfield European Student Accommodation Fund. Eighty million euros has moved and Portugal has exactly the same number of student beds as it had yesterday.

The Portugal Brief 19 Sep 2026

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Prosecutors Shelve a Third Corruption Case Against Manuel Pinho, Finding No Proof He Sent a Million Euros of Tourism Money to the Firm That Hired His Son

The Ministério Público has closed the third corruption file to grow out of the EDP case against José Sócrates's economy minister. Prosecutors could not prove he steered a state tourism contract to the consultancy that later employed him, his son and his stepdaughter.

The Portugal Brief 19 Sep 2026

An orange grove planted in rows on a hillside in the Algarve countryside, with whitewashed farm buildings alongside it and green fields running to hills in the distance.

An Orange Orchard Outside Faro Is Becoming Eleven Villas Valued at More Than Three Million Euros Each

Neel Sachdev, who runs Paul Weiss in London, paid 1.5 million euros for the land at Santa Barbara de Nexe and expects the Algarve to become the California of Europe. Portuguese house prices rose 17.8 percent in the year to the first quarter, against an EU average of 5.1 percent.

The Portugal Brief 19 Sep 2026

The granite church of Covas do Barroso in northern Portugal, with a stone cross on the gable and a terracotta roof, a walled cemetery to one side and wooded hills rising behind.

At Covas do Barroso, Coimbra Researchers Date the Injustice From Before the Mine, and Ask for a Binding Right to Refuse

A Horizon Europe paper from the Centro de Estudos Sociais proposes prospective environmental justice, and files Barroso under what it calls sacrificial logics. Its recommendations for Portugal include no-go criteria for mining in Natura 2000 and world agricultural heritage areas.

The Portugal Brief 19 Sep 2026

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