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A long mid-century residential block on Rua das Amoreiras in Lisbon, seen from the street, with balconies on every floor and cars parked below.

Portugal Scrapped Its Old Affordable-Rent Programme on 1 September, and the Replacement Still Cannot Be Used: the Rent Ceilings Were Due by 19 June and the IHRU Platform Is Not Live

Decreto-Lei 97/2026 offers landlords a full IRS and IRC exemption on accessible rents. It also gave the government 30 days to publish the portaria fixing the maximum rent by typology. That deadline was 19 June, and neither the order nor the platform exists.

The Portugal Brief 07 Sep 2026

Porto city hall seen across the square, the granite clock tower and carved facade of the historic building on the left and the modern municipal annexe with its rows of windows on the right.

The Mayor Who Delivered Porto 2001 and Helped Draw the Metro Map Died on Monday at 64, After Twice Asking the City to Take Him Back

Nuno Cardoso became mayor in 1999 by substitution, ran the European Capital of Culture year and the metro construction, and was dropped by his party before he could face a ballot. He came back as an independent twice, taking 1 percent in 2013 and 1.9 percent last October.

The Portugal Brief 07 Sep 2026

Aerial view of Samora Correia in the Leziria do Tejo, the town and its belt of white warehouse roofs, dark woodland behind it and irrigated fields stretching to the right.

Benavente Zones 32 Hectares for Business Beside the Future Airport, and Sets a 2028 Deadline After Which the Land Turns Back Into Farmland

The firing range that becomes the Aeroporto Luis de Camoes lies mostly inside Benavente, not Alcochete. The council has zoned a business park there, projects more than 100 million euros of turnover per mandate, and set a clause returning the land to farmland if nothing is built by 2028.

The Portugal Brief 07 Sep 2026

The wide sand of Praia de Carcavelos under a grey winter sky, surfers in the shorebreak on the left and the built-up strip behind the beach, with construction cranes on the skyline.

Four Court Dates in September Will Decide Whether 850 Flats Rise Behind Carcavelos Beach, on Land Parliament Asked the Government to Protect in 2021

The interim order that stopped the diggers has held since October. Hearings open on Wednesday at the Sintra administrative court, with three more sittings booked. Parliament recommended protecting this land in June 2021, and successive governments left the recommendation on the shelf.

The Portugal Brief 07 Sep 2026

The EDP headquarters in Lisbon seen from beneath its long canopy, with rows of white vertical fins throwing striped shadows across the plaza and a dark glass facade running away to the left

Markets, Business & Tech Briefing: Five Green Names Lift the PSI, Mota-Engil Wins Its First Exxon Contract, Goldman Warns on 120 Dollar Oil

📋 In This Edition * Five Stocks Rose and the Index Rose With Them, Because They Were the Right Five * Mota-Engil Takes Its First ExxonMobil Work in Mozambique, at 207 Million Dollars * Goldman Sachs Puts 120 Dollar Oil Back on the Table * Europe Sold Bonds and Portugal's Spread Did Not

The Portugal Brief 07 Sep 2026

No EU Country Added Jobs Faster Than Portugal Last Quarter, and at 5.49 Million People in Work the Count Has Never Been Higher

Eurostat's third estimate of the second quarter puts Portuguese employment up 1.0 percent on the quarter, the best in the EU, and 2.2 percent on the year, third behind Malta and Spain. The catch is that the workforce grew faster than output did.

The Portugal Brief 07 Sep 2026

The Hospital Garcia de Orta in Almada, a tall pink and white block above its car park, with a blue Portuguese sign pointing the way to the ambulance entrance.

The Health Inspectorate Has Opened a Formal Case Into the Almada Hospital That Closed Its Termination Clinic, the Fifth Abortion-Access Process Since 2023

IGAS opened process 104/2026-INS on 27 August, after a submission about how care is organised for women seeking a termination in Almada and Seixal. The hospital shut its information email the day it closed the clinic, and did not answer questions about where patients should go.

The Portugal Brief 07 Sep 2026

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