Weekly Digest — July 12 to July 19, 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. Euribor's Three-...
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.
Euribor's Three- and Six-Month Rates Hit Fresh Highs, Nudging Up Portugal's Variable Mortgages
The cost of a variable-rate mortgage in Portugal edged higher again this week as Euribor, the eurozone benchmark that sets most home loans in the country, pushed to fresh peaks at the maturities that...
Portugal Places Fourth Worldwide for Annual House-Price Growth at 16.5%
Only three countries in the world saw house prices rise faster than Portugal over the past year. According to Knight Frank's Global House Price Index for the first quarter of 2026, Portuguese homes...
The Porto Brief — Week of 19 July 2026: The Race to Run the Metro, a Polytechnic Turned University, and the Dragons Fly Home With a Win
Welcome back to the Porto Brief — your weekly roundup of what mattered in the Invicta over the past seven days. A fortnight after the turnstiles swung open for free, the week's big question turned to...
How Portugal's Deposit Guarantee Fund Protects Your Bank Savings in 2026: The €100,000 Limit, the Payout Timeline and the Temporary Cover for House-Sale Money
If you keep money in a Portuguese bank, it is worth knowing exactly what happens to it if that bank fails. The answer, for most people, is reassuring: deposits held with banks operating in Portugal...
Weekly Digest — July 05 to July 12, 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...
The Finance Minister Sketches a Household Savings Plan With New Tax-Favoured Investment Accounts
Portugal's government is preparing a broad plan to encourage households to save more, and one of the ideas under discussion is a new kind of tax-favoured investment account. Speaking to Parliament's...
Porto Researchers Pinpoint Two Proteins Behind the Ageing of the Immune System
Researchers in Porto have identified a biological mechanism that could help slow the "ageing of the immune system," offering a potential path to keeping the body's defences stronger for longer. The...
A New Government Portal Puts 90 Portuguese Monuments and Museums Online for Virtual Visits
Portugal's Ministério da Cultura (Ministry of Culture) has opened a new online window onto the country's heritage, launching a platform that lets anyone tour museums, monuments, palaces and...
Santarém's Maternity Unit Shuts for Four Days as Summer Rosters Strain the Health Service
The Gynaecology/Obstetrics emergency unit (urgência de Ginecologia/Obstetrícia) of the Hospital de Santarém will close for at least four days from Sunday, 19 July 2026, because there are not enough...
Porto's Polytechnic Becomes a New Public Technical University Under a Decree Published This Week
Porto is set to gain a new public higher-education institution. A decree-law (decreto-lei) creating the Universidade Técnica do Porto (Porto Technical University, or UTP) was published in the Diário...
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