The week's most important Portugal stories, curated from our daily coverage: AIMA's count of 1.59 million foreign residents, the face-covering ban in force, a 2025 surplus that belongs to social security, borrowing costs above 4 percent, and the 20 euro rail pass becoming law.
The week's most important Portugal stories, curated from our daily coverage: the IRS cut and the pension bonus get their numbers, the regulated electricity tariff rises on 1 October, Revolut hands customer files to impostors, and easyJet cabin crew book two strikes.
The week's most important Portugal stories, curated from our daily coverage: the new immigration law in force, 800 million euros of tax and pension measures announced from the censure debate, record diesel with a weekly tax handback, and fixed taxi fares from Lisbon airport.
The week's most important Portugal stories, curated from our daily coverage: the cabinet sending both TAP bidders back for three weeks, Fitch's upgrade to A+, a rewritten public contracts code, a citizenship test that exists only on paper, and a food basket back above 254 euros.
The week's most important Portugal stories, curated from our daily coverage: the Return Law cleared by the Constitutional Court, a censure motion set for Tuesday, the rulebook for the single social benefit, and a September that resets mortgages, retail pay and the border.
The week's most important Portugal stories, curated from our daily coverage: a seized car in the Interior Minister's hands, a pension report the government will not publish, pay transparency without the numbers, and housing costs at a fresh extreme.
Fire and money dominate the week: a Valpaços blaze takes 15,000 hectares, Portugal pays about 25% more than Italy for frigates, the President sends the new asylum law to the Constitutional Court, growth holds at 2.5% but slips out of the EU's top three, and inflation eases to 3.0%.
