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This briefing gives a comparative assessment of initiatives being undertaken in RRF Pillar 4 across a sample of four National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) in Ireland, Italy, Poland and Portugal. In each of them, it covers three measures falling into the categories territorial infrastructure, targeting of specific territories, and adult and vocational training. Pillar 4 is covered as a cross-cutting theme that is picked up across a range of components, but there is substantial variation in ...

With a population of almost 236 million, Pakistan is the fifth most populous country in the world. The country has been hit by extreme weather events this year. In March and April 2022, an extreme heat wave hit Pakistan and India. This was followed in June by the heaviest monsoon rains in over a century. The rains left a third of the country under water – an area almost three times the size of Portugal. The damage is significant – over 1 600 people have been killed by the rains, floods and landslides ...

This note presents selected information on the current status of the EU economic governance procedures and related relevant information in view of an economic dialogue and exchange of views with Fernando Medina, Minister of Finance of Portugal, in the ECON committee of the European Parliament. The invitation for an exchange of views is in accordance with the EU economic governance framework. The last exchange of views with the Portuguese authorities took place in November 2016.

Portugal deverá receber 16,6 mil milhões de EUR em apoio não reembolsável e empréstimos do Mecanismo de Recuperação e Resiliência (MRR), a resposta sem precedentes da UE à crise desencadeada pela pandemia de COVID 19. Este montante corresponde a 2,3 % da totalidade do MRR e a 7,8 % do produto interno bruto (PIB) de Portugal em 2019. Coloca se uma grande ênfase na resiliência social, económica e ambiental do país, com medidas orientadas para a cultura, a habitação, a saúde, as amplas respostas sociais ...

A legislação vinculativa da UE em matéria de clima e energia para 2030 exige que os Estados-Membros adotem planos nacionais de energia e clima (PNEC) para o período de 2021 a 2030. Em outubro de 2020, a Comissão Europeia publicou uma avaliação para cada PNEC. Portugal apresentou o seu PNEC em dezembro de 2019. Mais de metade (57%) dos portugueses espera que os governos nacionais combatam as alterações climáticas. Portugal gera 1,8% das emissões totais de gases com efeito de estufa (GEE) na UE. Em ...

On 8 May 2021, EU Heads of State or Government met in Porto for an informal European Council, preceded on 7 May by a social summit, organised by the Portuguese Presidency. The informal European Council was followed by an EU–India leaders' meeting, attended remotely by the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. At their informal meeting, EU leaders discussed social policy and, without formally endorsing the Commission action plan, adopted the Porto Declaration, welcoming 'the new EU headline targets ...

According to the Portuguese Constitution adopted in 1976, Portugal is a semi-presidential Republic and a parliamentary democracy. It is a unitary state which also includes two autonomous regions (the Azores and Madeira archipelagos) with their own political and administrative statutes and self-governing institutions (Article 6 of the Constitution). The Constitution of the Third Republic created a single representative body: the Assembly of the Republic (Assembleia da República). The Assembly exercises ...

Portugal is a democratic republic with a unitary semi-presidential system of government, whereby the Prime Minister of Portugal is the head of government. The current Prime Minister is António Luís Santos da Costa, from the Socialist Party, and a former MEP who was a Vice-President of the European Parliament between July 2004 and March 2005. The President of Portugal, Marcelo de Sousa, from the Social Democrat Party, is the executive head of state and has several significant political powers. Executive ...

Draft Amending Budget No 4/2020 (DAB 4/2020) accompanies the proposed decision to mobilise the EU Solidarity Fund for an amount of €279 million to provide assistance to Portugal, Spain, Italy and Austria following natural disasters that took place in these Member States in the course of 2019. It proposes to enter the necessary appropriations in the 2020 budget, both in commitments and payments, after deducting the advances already paid out (€6.5 million). The European Parliament is expected to vote ...

A presente nota informativa foi elaborada com o objetivo de fornecer informações para a visita a Portugal de uma delegação da Comissão do Desenvolvimento Regional do Parlamento Europeu, de 27 de fevereiro a 1 de março de 2018.