Economy Minister Manuel Castro Almeida says 'wide-open doors' to migration 'did not produce good results', but promises an almost-'green lane' for immigrants who arrive with a job and a home — reframing immigration around Portugal's record-low unemployment and labour shortage.
Portugal's biggest estate-agency networks posted record first-half revenue even as home sales fell 7.7% to 75,860 in H1 2026. With prices up 18.6% and foreign and institutional buyers paying far above residents, fewer keys are changing hands — but each sale is worth much more.
📋 In This Edition * Market Wrap: Lisbon Climbs 0.5% as Utilities and Telecoms Lead * Movers: REN, NOS and the EDP Complex Power the Advance; Sonae Lags * Business & Tech Focus: €1.58bn
Switzerland's largest telecoms operator will open a technology and business-services centre in Lisbon in 2027, starting with 40 staff and aiming for around 200 — its third such hub after Riga and Rotterdam, and one more foreign employer betting on the city's talent base.
A decree-law published on 6 August amends Portugal's criminal, civil and administrative procedure codes to trim bureaucracy — bundling fee guides into notifications, blocking incomplete online filings, and letting courts pull data from public databases directly instead of asking parties to resupply
A government bill before parliament would transpose the EU Pay Transparency Directive, barring repeat pay-discrimination offenders from public tenders for two years and stripping their tax breaks. Workers gain the right to ask for pay data, a two-month answer deadline, and three years' protection fr
Portugal's health ministry has published Despacho n.o 9696/2026, rewriting how the SNS pays doctors for extra urgent work and revoking a criticised 29 June order. The earlier version had excluded some stroke-unit staff tied to the fast-track 'Vias Verdes' for strokes and heart attacks; the Ordem dos
