Weekly Digest — April 26 to May 03, 2026

The week's most important Portugal stories, curated from our daily coverage.

This week in Portugal: the stories that mattered most, from politics and the economy to housing, health, and culture. If you missed anything, start here.

President Seguro Hands Adalberto Campos Fernandes the Strategic Pact for Health — Coordination Team Begins Work Monday With a One-Year Mandate to Build Cross-Party Consensus on SNS Reform

The healthcare promise that António José Seguro placed at the centre of his presidential inauguration speech — to deliver SNS care 'a tempo e horas' (on time, on schedule) — moved this week from...

Government Blocks Eutanásia Implementation Three Years After Law 22/2023 Citing Acórdão 307/2025 Constitutional Court Ruling — Portuguese Sign-Ups With Switzerland's Dignitas Climb to 80

Three years after Parliament approved Law 22/2023, of 25 May, decriminalising medically assisted death, the regime remains unimplemented — and the government has now told Público that it has no plans...

CGTP Sets Second General Strike for 2 June Against the Pacote Laboral — Tiago Oliveira to Unveil the Date at Saldanha's May Day Rally

The Confederação Geral dos Trabalhadores Portugueses-Intersindical Nacional has lined up a second general strike for Tuesday, 2 June 2026 , against the Government's Trabalho XXI labour package. The...

Government Sends Tribunal de Contas Reform to Parliament — Calamity-Recovery Contracts Now Fully Exempt from Prior Vetting and €10 Million Threshold Reaffirmed as Utility, Cleaning and Nonprofit Service Contracts Drop Out of Visto Prévio

The XXV Constitutional Government delivered on Tuesday, 28 April 2026, the proposta de lei that rewrites the Lei de Organização e Processo do Tribunal de Contas — the LOPTC, the 1997 statute that...

€2bn of the €3.5bn Storm Aid Package Has Reached Households and Firms — Paulo Fernandes Says Just 3,000 of 36,000 Housing Files Paid, €3.3M of a €10M Agriculture Dotation Out the Door

Three months after the cluster of depressions that battered the Portuguese mainland between 22 January and 15 February — a sequence headlined by depression Kristin and totalling €5.3 billion in...

Property Tax in Portugal in 2026: A Practical Guide to IMI, AIMI, IMT, the May Payment Calendar and the Capital-Gains Treatment for Residents and Foreign Owners

Owning property in Portugal in 2026 means tracking four separate taxes that can land on the same cadastral parcel in the same calendar year, each with its own filing flow, exemption regime and...

Polícia Judiciária Searches AIMA's Ponta Delgada Office in Operação Linha Direta — Public Servants Suspected of Selling Appointment Priority and Case-Processing Speed Inside the Loja AIMA dos Açores

The Polícia Judiciária dos Açores , working with the PJ's Unidade de Perícia Tecnológica e Informática and under the direction of the Departamento de Investigação e Ação Penal da Comarca dos Açores ,...

Inside the Mid-July Reform Cliff: How the Labour Package, the Four PRR Reforms and the Programa de Estabilidade All Stack Into One Parliamentary Recess Deadline

Wednesday 7 May's Concertação Social sitting was always going to be the political moment of this stretch. After CGTP secretary-general Tiago Oliveira used the 1.º de Maio rally to call a national...

Bank of Portugal's March Statistical Release Catches Mortgage-Credit Growth at 10.3% — Strongest Annual Pace Since 2003 and Comfortably Above the Eurozone's 2.9%

Banco de Portugal published its monthly Síntese Estatística for March 2026 on Wednesday afternoon and the headline figure on housing credit is the kind that decides labour-reform debates and tightens...

Brussels Opens an Infringement Case Over Salary-Scale Discrimination Against Fixed-Term Public-Sector Workers — Portugal Has Two Months to Realign the Lei Geral do Trabalho em Funções Públicas With Directive 1999/70/EC

The European Commission's April 2026 infringement package, published in Brussels on Wednesday, opened a fresh formal-notice procedure against Portugal — case INFR(2026)4001 — over the way the Lei...

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