What Portugal searched for on 11 September 2026

Most searched in the 24 hours to 13:20: suíça (10K+), timoneiro (5K+), pedro passos coelho (5K+), crise energética (2K+), combustíveis próxima semana (2K+), brasileiros em portugal (2K+).

• crise energética2K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 19:36

  We found no single event on this particular day behind the words "energy crisis". Why people started searching for them today, we do not know.

  What is actually going on around the subject: fuel prices are at their highest this year, energy company bosses are warning that electricity and gas will go up again this winter, and the government has extended the discount on bottled gas to the end of the year. The discount goes to people on the social electricity tariff (our news story of 9 September).

  The procedure for a crisis was set up back in March: if the European Union declares an electricity price crisis, the government, after consulting the regulator, can bring in special protection for households and small businesses. No such declaration has been made so far.

  Source: portugal.gov.pt

  

• combustíveis próxima semana2K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 19:36

  From Monday 14 September diesel goes up and petrol comes down. Based on market prices at the end of the week, the average price of a litre of ordinary diesel will be around €2.152, four cents more than this week; ordinary 95 petrol will drop by about six cents, to €2.04. This is a forecast, not an announced price: what you pay at the pump depends on the filling station, the brand and the district.

  Part of the change has a precise, published cause. Portaria n.º 430-A/2026/1 takes effect on 14 September and changes ISP, the fuel duty: it adds about a cent to a litre of petrol and takes 0.11 cents off a litre of diesel. The rest comes down to oil prices.

  What to do about it. If you drive a diesel, fill up by Sunday; if you drive a petrol car, do the opposite and wait until Monday. Even so, the gap between filling stations is bigger than any weekly change: on 11 September the cheapest diesel in the country cost €1.720 and the most expensive €2.394. We keep our own figures by district on the page How much fuel costs in Portugal, and the duty change itself is explained in our story on fuel duty from 14 September.

  Source: files.diariodarepublica.pt

  

• brasileiros em portugal2K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 19:36

  People searched for this together with the word deportação, and for a real reason: on 11 September the new foreigners law, Lei n.º 62/2026, published in the Diário da República the day before, came into force. Brazilians are the largest group of newcomers in the country, so they were the first to start searching, but the rules apply to everyone and affect our readers in exactly the same way.

  Behind the searches for "deportation" is a case that spread through the press over the same few days. A nineteen-year-old who had lived in Portugal with his parents for two years was returning from an internship in Ireland and was refused entry at Lisbon airport. He spent four days in the holding area and was then put on a plane to São Paulo; once he was in Brazil, it turned out that his residence permit had been approved in the meantime. The family had applied for family reunification, he turned eighteen before the decision came, and he had nothing to show at the border.

  Hence what is worth knowing before you travel. By law, the receipt for a submitted renewal application serves as the residence permit itself, and you should carry a printed copy. An AIMA appointment, however, is not a document: until the application has been submitted, you have nothing to show at passport control. On deadlines, grounds and how to appeal, see Removal from Portugal and Passport control in Portugal and the EES system; what exactly the new law has changed is set out in our news story.

  Source: data.dre.pt

  

• crédito1K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 19:36

  This was searched for together with bce, and it is clear why: the European Central Bank has raised its three key interest rates by a quarter of a point, and the new rates apply from 16 September.

  If you have a mortgage, what counts is not the ECB rate but Euribor, and Euribor is already at a two-year high: 2.800% for six months and 3.117% for twelve. Six-month Euribor is the most common benchmark in Portuguese home loans. Your payment does not change on the day of the ECB decision, though, but on the day your rate is reviewed under your contract: every three, six or twelve months, depending on what yours says.

  We worked out what this means in euros in the story ECB rates went up from 16 September; on Euribor itself, see our story of 9 September.

  

• suíça10K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 19:36

  On the evening of 10 September, a tour coach belonging to a Dutch company and carrying 48 passengers crashed between Susch and Zernez in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Several people died, among them the Portuguese driver, which is why the news was so widely read in Portugal.

  Source: rr.pt

• timoneiro5K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 19:36

  This one is not about Sesimbra, even though it was searched for alongside the same word, naufrágio. On 10 September prosecutors asked for a prison sentence of at least five years for the skipper of a boat that capsized off Tróia in April 2024: four people died, among them an eleven-year-old boy. According to the prosecution, he took the boat out to sea in waves of almost four metres for a hundred and fifty euros.

  Source: osetubalense.com

• pedro passos coelho5K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 19:36

  On 11 September the former prime minister presented the findings of a study he carried out with former MP Sérgio Sousa Pinto and the head of the Porto trade association: the main brake on Portugal's economy is not a shortage of workers but low productivity, held back by centralisation, bureaucracy, taxes and slow courts. The full study is promised for the end of the year; for now it changes no rules, payments or deadlines.

  Source: rr.pt

• supermercado2K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 19:36

  People searched for this together with the word investimento: on 10 September Mercadona opened its first shop in the district of Vila Real. It is the chain's 76th shop in the country, with 1,900 square metres, €9.5 million of investment and 74 jobs.

  Source: noticiasdevilareal.sapo.pt

  

• praia de moledo2K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 19:36

  Moledo beach in Caminha is at the very north of the country, at the mouth of the Minho on the Spanish border. People are searching for it because of the same speedboat that is behind the searches for lancha: on the morning of 11 September it was found washed up on the sand. The name of the beach started trending a few hours before the word lancha itself.

  Source: rr.pt

• naufragio sesimbra2K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 19:36

  A fishing boat sank off Sesimbra marina on 11 September. There were seven people on board. Six were picked up by another boat, three of them with hypothermia and one in a serious condition, and all were taken to São Bernardo hospital in Setúbal. The seventh, according to those rescued, was dragged down with the boat; the search for him went on all day. Why the boat sank is not yet known.

  Source: rr.pt

  

• lancha2K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 19:36

  Early on the morning of 11 September a speedboat of the kind used to carry drugs across the ocean was found washed up on the sand of Moledo beach in Caminha, at the very north of the country on the Spanish border. There was nobody nearby; the criminal police are handling the case.

  Source: rr.pt

  

• preco combustíveis1K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 19:36

  The same story, searched for in different words on the same day: people were checking what would happen to prices next week. The explanation is above, under "combustíveis próxima semana"; our figures by district and by day are on the page How much fuel costs in Portugal.

  Source: our fuel prices

• ordem dos médicos1K+ searches
  Published 8 November 2026, 19:36

  On 11 September the Ordem dos Médicos, the doctors' professional body, named eleven places where there are too few doctors and those there are hard to keep: the Azores, Beja, Bragança, Castelo Branco, Évora, Faro, Guarda, Madeira, Portalegre, Vila Real and Viseu. It also proposed ways to keep them: housing under agreements between the ministry and the câmaras, specialist training places for those who work in the interior, pay supplements and IRS and IMI discounts. For now these are only proposals; no decision has been taken on them. What to do if you do not yet have a family doctor: Family doctor in Portugal.

  Source: eco.sapo.pt