On a €150,000 loan over 30 years at a 1 percent spread, the three-month reset adds €23.21, the six-month €46.95 and the twelve-month €70. The European Central Bank meets on 10 September, and markets are already pricing a second rise on 17 December.
The National Storage Strategy is now on Participa.pt and anyone can file a comment. It wants pumping at 3.9 GW and batteries at 3 GW by 2030, rising to 5.26 and 4.5 by 2040. The 2030 pumping number rests on one project, and Brussels still has to approve that half.
Not tinkering with IRC and IRS, says the liberals' parliamentary leader, but the tax system as a whole, plus justice, civil protection and Social Security. In Setúbal the Bloco calls its first Pureza-era forum a moment of listening. Both are aiming at the 2027 budget.
If you work in Portugal for a foreign company with no office here, a third company may hold your contract. The court declared the dismissal unlawful because the reasons were vague, and tied that vagueness to the structure itself. What to keep proof of.
Eighty-one museums, monuments and palaces plus three national theatres have to show their main works are done by Monday midnight. Ninety-nine percent of the money is in execution. But meeting the target is not reopening: São Carlos waits until 2028 and the Museu Nacional de Arqueologia until 2030.
Your weekly roundup from the capital: on the eve of the Elevador da Glória's first anniversary, Carris publishes a page of answers but no reopening date, the mayor counts none of his 200 police, central Lisbon's anaesthetists file liability disclaimers, and the Banco de Portugal leaves the Baixa.
Good morning. Here is your Saturday briefing for 29 August 2026: the day's essential Portugal stories for residents, expats and anyone keeping an eye on the country, running from the
