Papers

You open a supplier’s website: the first screen promises a discount, further down it offers to put electricity and gas […]

Portugal’s official gazette, the Diário da República, has published the law that everyone here has been calling the Lei do

You go away for a week, barely switch a light on, and the bill comes back almost unchanged. Or you

The rubbish hasn’t been collected in two weeks, the school roof leaks, the playground is falling apart — and it

If you have looked for a job in Portugal, you know the routine: an advert without a single figure, and

August and early September are moving season — apartment-hunting time. At a summer viewing the windows are open, the walls

How to See a Doctor in Portugal: SNS, Private Clinics, Insurance and a Family Doctor There are two main routes

Portugal’s Constitutional Court found no breach of the Constitution in any of the contested provisions of the new Lei do

From the start of the new school year a pupil in a Portuguese school will not be able to take

There is a month when Portugal stops answering. It doesn’t slow down or work at half capacity—it simply stops answering.