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Four-storey white social housing blocks at the Bairro de Santo Amaro in Lagos, with cars parked on a cobbled forecourt and trees along the edge under a blue sky

The European Investment Bank Will Put 1.5 Billion Euros Behind Portuguese Social Housing, and the First 500 Million Was Signed on Monday

The first phase targets 50,000 homes built or rehabilitated under 1.o Direito, the IHRU programme for people in undignified housing. The government says it covers the social responses left outside the Recovery and Resilience Plan.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

The Palacio de Sao Bento in Lisbon at dusk, its neoclassical portico and colonnade lit against a deep blue sky, with the Portuguese flag flying above the pediment

Three Parties Now Sit Within 2.2 Points of Each Other in the First Weekly Tracking Poll, and the Coalition in Government Is the One in Third

CNN Portugal and TVI put the PS on 27.9 percent, Chega on 27.1 and the AD on 25.7, inside a 3.5 point margin. The government scores 35 percent approval against 58 percent negative, and 65 percent say Luis Neves cannot continue.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

The neoclassical stone facade of the Tribunal da Relacao de Coimbra, its pediment carrying a sculpted group and the inscription DOMVS IVSTITIAE

Personal Insolvency in Portugal in 2026: A Practical Guide to the Exoneracao do Passivo Restante, the Three Years of Ceded Income, the 300,000 Euro Small-Debtor Route, and the Four Debts a Discharge Never Clears

How the CIRE discharge works after Lei 9/2022: three years of ceded income instead of five, a payment-plan route that carries no publicity or registration, and one sentence in Article 254 that forfeits the whole benefit if it is left out.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

The white louvred facade of the Porto Business School campus building under a clear blue sky, with poplars in front of the entrance signage

Portugal Made Room for Forty Deep Tech Teams in Porto and Filled Thirty-One, With Nearly Half the Cohort Still at Proof of Concept

Tech Foundry Portugal started on Tuesday with 31 projects from 98 applications. The government's June call offered up to 40 places over four months; the cohort that began fills 31 of them over three.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

Passengers queueing between retractable barriers in a terminal at Lisbon's Humberto Delgado airport, with a uniformed security officer standing beside the line

The Six-Hour Valve at Europe's Biometric Border Expired on Sunday, and It Only Lasted That Long Because the Rollout Missed Its Own Biometric Threshold

Article 7(3) of Regulation 2025/1534 let a state drop fingerprints for six hours at one crossing point when queues grew. It lapsed on 6 September. Ryanair wants it back to April 2027, and Portugal signed a letter asking for the same thing in July.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

The bronze sculpture A Justiça by Leopoldo de Almeida outside the Palácio da Justiça in Lisbon, showing a figure restraining two rearing horses.

When a Debt in Portugal Expires in 2026: A Practical Guide to Prescrição, the Six Months on a Water Bill, the Two Years on a Traffic Fine, the Eight on Tax, the Twenty That Follow a Judgment, and the Sentence That Restarts the Clock

Portuguese law does not delete an old debt; it gives you a right to refuse it, and only if you say so. Article 303 of the Civil Code stops a court raising prescrição for you, and one written acknowledgement, or one part payment, resets the whole clock.

The Portugal Brief 07 Sep 2026

An Asian hornet, Vespa velutina, feeding on a white umbellifer flower, with its dark body, single orange abdominal band and yellow leg tips visible.

The Azores Have Twelve Months and 49,995 Euros to Erase an Asian Hornet That Mainland Portugal Has Been Living With Since 2011

A nest at Areias de Rabo de Peixe confirmed Vespa velutina on São Miguel in January 2025. An IUCN grant funded by the European Union now pays for a year of mapping, nest destruction and training from 1 September. On the mainland the same insect has spread for fifteen years.

The Portugal Brief 07 Sep 2026

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