Ana Casaca, innovation director at Galp and the only Portuguese member of the European Innovation Council board, takes over at AICEP. Her three predecessors covered the same chair in a little over three years.
Fernando Alexandre says a pilot merging the first and second cycles will run in 2027/28, with the curricular matrix under revision. Teacher federations and parents' associations object to the pace and to the silence on how it works.
Lei Orgânica n.º 3/2026 gives every Azorean polling station at least two braille templates, trains the tables to handle them, and rejects an entire candidate list that misses the 40 percent parity floor and is not corrected.
Decreto-Lei n.º 182/2026 sets up CELE 2, the second European emissions trading system. Liability sits with whoever releases the fuel for consumption, reporting starts from 2025 and allowance surrender from 2028.
Lei n.º 62/2026 was published on Thursday and takes effect on Friday. It writes screening into Portuguese law with a seven-day border clock, caps border return at 12 weeks and replaces the voluntary departure notice with a duty to leave.
Good morning. Here is your Wednesday briefing for 9 September 2026: the day's essential Portugal stories for residents, expats and anyone keeping an eye on the country, running from the
INE's ICCHN eased 0.6 points on the previous month, and for the first time this year labour and materials contributed equally at 3.4 percentage points each. The month-on-month change was zero. PVC pipe is up 20 percent and bitumen 15.
