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The glass and concrete office block in Moscavide that houses the PSP's Lisbon Metropolitan Command, seen from the corner above calçada paving

Portugal Counted 14,476 People Without a Home at the End of 2024, and the Charity Working Lisbon's Streets Would Bring Back the 1990s Drug Playbook

Comunidade Vida e Paz accompanies about 450 people on Lisbon's streets. Answering the PSP's metropolitan commander, its president asked for school prevention, more treatment beds and employability programmes rather than money alone.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

The salmon-pink neo-Moorish facade of the Tribunal da Relação in Évora, with three arched doorways, a Portuguese flag and patterned calçada paving in front

Évora Prosecutors Send Two Men and a Spanish Company to Trial Over Workers Lured to Elvas, and Ask the Court for 324,000 Euros of the Proceeds

The DIAP Regional de Évora says workers from Algeria and Morocco were brought into Portugal on job offers the defendants never intended to honour, between October 2021 and January 2022. Two men and a Spain-based company are charged.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

A red and silver Metro de Lisboa train arriving at the platform at Alameda station, with passengers waiting along the tiled platform edge

Portugal's Trains Carried 3.7 Million More Passengers This Spring While the Lisbon Metro Shed Its Third Quarter in a Row

INE's second-quarter transport figures put rail up 6.2 percent and interurban journeys up 15.6 percent, while Metro de Lisboa fell 4.4 percent and Metro do Porto rose 4.8 percent. Domestic air traffic shrank 3.9 percent as international grew.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

The Portuguese Navy frigate NRP Bartolomeu Dias under way on open blue water, hull number F333 legible on the bow, with a second warship on the horizon behind it.

A Gazette Supplement Puts Portuguese Officers in Charge of Two European Union Military Missions, and One of Them Is Only Funded Until December

Two presidential decrees signed on Monday name an air force brigadier-general to command EUMAM Mozambique to September 2027 and a navy commodore to command the ATALANTA naval force to February 2027. Brussels has authorised the Mozambique mission only to 31 December 2026.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

The green-tiled tower of the Ministerio do Trabalho e Seguranca Social at Praca de Londres in Lisbon, photographed looking straight up its glazed facade against a deep blue sky.

Employers Told the Equality Commission 1,777 Times Last Year That a Pregnant Worker's Contract Would Not Be Renewed, and the Law Asks Only for Five Days' Notice

Non-renewing a fixed-term contract for a pregnant or postpartum worker takes a stated reason and five working days. Dismissing one takes a prior opinion from CITE, a presumption against the employer and, if the opinion is unfavourable, a court. The gap is the story.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

The main entrance of the Escola Secundaria Domingos Sequeira in Leiria, the school name lettered in green across a glazed entrance block beside an older cream wing, under a clear blue sky.

Portugal's Ten-Year Science Slide Is Nearly Three Times the OECD's, and Only One in Eleven of Its Fifteen-Year-Olds Now Reaches the Top Two Levels

PISA 2025 landed on Tuesday. Portugal matches the OECD average in science, reading, mathematics and computational problem solving, but that average is the lowest ever recorded. Since 2015 Portugal has lost 19 points in science, 36 in reading and 34 in mathematics.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

General Daily Briefing: Tuesday, 8 September 2026

General Daily Briefing: Tuesday, 8 September 2026

Good morning. Here is your Tuesday briefing for 8 September 2026: the day's essential Portugal stories for residents, expats and anyone keeping an eye on the country, running from a three-way tie at the top of the polls to a shotgun found on a private jet at Cascais.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

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