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The orange colonial-era City Hall of Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, with the national flag flying

Portugal Readies a €100 Million Credit Line for Firms Investing in Cape Verde as President Seguro Opens a Praia Business Forum

President António José Seguro says Portugal is finalising a €100 million credit line for companies investing in Cape Verde, unveiled as he opened a Portugal–Cape Verde business forum in Praia. Portugal was the archipelago's largest investor in early 2026, targeting renewables, digital services and t

The Portugal Brief 22 Jul 2026

General Daily Briefing — Wednesday, 22 July 2026

General Daily Briefing — Wednesday, 22 July 2026

Good morning. Here is what Portugal woke up to on Wednesday, 22 July 2026 — six stories shaping the day for residents, expats and observers of the country: * The ICNF placed 23 municipalities across five interior districts at maximum wildfire danger, with about 80 more at “very high” risk, as temperatures

The Portugal Brief 22 Jul 2026

The yellow facade of the Casa-Museu Amalia Rodrigues on Rua de Sao Bento in Lisbon, with flower-filled balconies, red banners and a mural of the fado singer

Lisbon's Amalia Rodrigues House-Museum Marks a Quarter-Century With Fado and Poetry

The Casa-Museu Amalia Rodrigues on Rua de Sao Bento opens a year of 25th-anniversary events on 23 July with a fado-and-poetry session on what would have been the singer's birthday. The Lisbon house has drawn over 150,000 visitors from 150 nationalities.

The Portugal Brief 22 Jul 2026

An open hand holding several assorted medication capsules and tablets against a green background

Alzheimer Portugal Presses the State to Fund the New Drugs That Slow the Disease

Alzheimer Portugal is urging the state to reimburse lecanemab and donanemab, the first drugs shown to slow early Alzheimer's, which currently cost patients up to €40,000 out of pocket while INFARMED weighs whether the SNS should fund them.

The Portugal Brief 22 Jul 2026

Aircraft in TAP and Portugalia livery parked at Lisbon airport, surrounded by baggage carts, tugs and boarding stairs on the apron under a clear blue sky

Regulator Bars an Iberia-Linked Consortium From Airport Ground-Handling, Clearing the Path for Menzies

ANAC has excluded the Iberia-linked Union South consortium from the seven-year ground-handling tender at Lisbon, Porto and Faro, saying it failed to prove it could mobilise the resources it promised, and has called Menzies-owned SPdH to advance instead.

The Portugal Brief 22 Jul 2026

A pile of euro banknotes and coins of various denominations spread across a table

The Government Leaves the Door Open to a 2027 Minimum Wage Above €970

Labour Minister Maria do Rosario Palma Ramalho says the government 'neither opens nor closes the door' to a 2027 minimum wage above the agreed €970, as the UGT pushes for €1,000 and a junior minister urges faster rises ahead of autumn Social Concertation talks.

The Portugal Brief 22 Jul 2026

Luis Neves, Portugal's Interior Minister and former head of the Judicial Police, speaks at a podium before the Portuguese flag and the Policia Judiciaria emblem

Prosecutors Open a Criminal Inquiry Into Interior Minister Luis Neves Over a Missing Drug-Case Trailer

Prosecutors and the Judicial Police have opened an inquiry touching Interior Minister Luis Neves over a trailer seized in a record cocaine case that vanished from an impound and resurfaced at a contractor's yard. Neves says he welcomes the probe and denies wrongdoing.

The Portugal Brief 22 Jul 2026

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