INE's July services turnover release grew in euros and shrank in volume. Accommodation and catering posted its fourth consecutive year-on-year fall in the heart of the season, and the services employment index swung 2.8 points in a month to minus 1.3 percent.
Figueira da Foz is one of only twelve councils in Portugal running two municipal forest sapper teams; fifty others run one. The state puts in about 65,000 euros per team against a real cost near 150,000, and the career parliament recommended in 2023 has not arrived.
Brussels appointed Sergio Lino de Almeida Estrela EU Mission Force Commander on 10 September, effective Monday. A separate Council decision taken in May already fixes the end of EUMAM Mozambique at 31 December, and the assessment that decides what follows is due this month.
Heavy goods vehicles are barred from the Via de Cintura Interna from Tuesday, the council condemned nineteen trees on the Avenida dos Aliados, and Lusa read the 1.2 billion euro price tag inside Porto's ten-year mobility plan. Plus the Coliseu, Gaia's toll gantries and six wins from six.
Good morning. Here is your Sunday briefing for 13 September 2026: the day's essential Portugal stories for residents, expats and anyone keeping an eye on the country, running from the
Eight consecutive years of growth on the navigable Douro, 113 operators and nearly 17,000 lock passages. The operators say the infrastructure, not the demand, is what limits the next stretch.
One of the Brisa engineers on the final Torres Novas to Condeixa stretch told Lusa what changed: the country stopped being 800 kilometres long and became 300 or 400.
