Eurostat's confirmed second-quarter figures held Portugal's growth at 2.5% year on year, above the euro-area average — but after other countries' data was revised upward, Portugal slipped out of the top three EU performers it had briefly led in July's flash estimate.
Separate fires flared across the districts of Bragança and Vila Real this weekend, injuring five firefighters — two seriously — near Vinhais, where a tanker truck burned out and the village of Dine was briefly evacuated. Around 550 operatives fought three northern blazes as councils stayed at maximu
INE's 14 August data show Portugal's tourism cooling: 23.3 million overnight stays in the second quarter, up just 1.2%, even as revenue rose 5.2% to €2.1 billion. Growth is now coming from higher prices rather than more visitors, with the sector showing clear 'signs of slowdown.'
Transparency International Portugal has judged the government's oversight model for the €5.8 billion SAFE defence-loan programme 'clearly insufficient,' warning it reduces scrutiny of frigates, vehicles and drones to a 'mere ex-post control' by bodies that answer to the ministers who authorise the s
The government's administrative-justice reform, now six bills before Parliament, would stop public prosecutors intervening in state lawsuits worth up to €15,000 — one piece of a push to clear courts where cases average 861 days.
The state employed 768,378 people at the end of June 2026, a new high, official DGAEP data show — up 1% on the year, with local councils, health and education driving the growth as public pay outpaces inflation.
Portugal already knows how to protect its soil and forests from a changing climate, a new report argues. What it lacks is the nerve to set targets, the centralised data to back them and the institutions to turn science into policy.
