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General Daily Briefing — Sunday, 12 July 2026

General Daily Briefing — Sunday, 12 July 2026

Here is your Portugal briefing for Sunday, 12 July 2026 — the day’s six stories at a glance: * Teachers’ union Fenprof is taking Portugal’s troubled digital exam-grading system to the public prosecutor, while the opposition PS demands answers from the prime minister and floats a parliamentary inquiry. * Portugal and

The Portugal Brief 12 Jul 2026

A Ponte de Lima Food Group Puts €5.2 Million Into Its Factory to Push the Chipicão Snack Brand Into Spain

A family-owned food producer in the north of Portugal is betting on its own balance sheet — rather than European subsidies — to fund an expansion and take one of its brands across the border into Spain. Officetotal Food Brands, which runs the...

The Portugal Brief 12 Jul 2026

Silves Brings Back Its Award-Winning Cork Museum, Shut Since 2009

Silves Brings Back Its Award-Winning Cork Museum, Shut Since 2009

One of the Algarve's most celebrated cultural landmarks has come back to life. On Saturday, the Museu da Cortiça (Cork Museum) in Silves — the medieval former capital of the Algarve, set on the banks of the Rio Arade (Arade River) — reopened its...

The Portugal Brief 12 Jul 2026

Portugal and Eight Other Countries Ask Brussels to Extend the Right to Pause the EU's New Biometric Border Checks Past September

Portugal and Eight Other Countries Ask Brussels to Extend the Right to Pause the EU's New Biometric Border Checks Past September

Portugal has joined eight other European countries in asking Brussels to keep the escape hatch open on the European Union's new biometric border system. In a joint letter to Magnus Brunner, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Portugal,...

The Portugal Brief 12 Jul 2026

EDP Renewables Lifts First-Half Power Output 4%, Driven by a Solar Surge

EDP Renewables Lifts First-Half Power Output 4%, Driven by a Solar Surge

EDP Renováveis (EDP Renewables), the green-energy arm of Portugal's EDP (Energias de Portugal), generated 4% more electricity in the first half of 2026 than it did a year earlier, with a fast-growing solar fleet doing most of the heavy lifting. The...

The Portugal Brief 12 Jul 2026

Chega Urges the Government to Track a University Study Into Contamination Around the Azores' Lajes Air Base

Chega Urges the Government to Track a University Study Into Contamination Around the Azores' Lajes Air Base

The long-running question of what decades of military fuel storage have left in the ground around the Lajes Air Base has returned to Portugal's Parliament. Chega, the third-largest party in the Assembleia da República (Assembly of the Republic), has...

The Portugal Brief 12 Jul 2026

Teachers Lodge a Criminal Complaint Over Portugal's Botched Digital Exam Grading as the PS Demands a Parliamentary Inquiry

Teachers Lodge a Criminal Complaint Over Portugal's Botched Digital Exam Grading as the PS Demands a Parliamentary Inquiry

Portugal's troubled switch to digital exam marking has moved from a technical headache into a full-blown political and legal fight. Fenprof (Federação Nacional dos Professores, the National Federation of Teachers), the country's largest teaching...

The Portugal Brief 12 Jul 2026

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