In the episode broadcast on 28 March 2026, Decisão Nacional featured Inês Vidigal, a researcher at the Emigration Observatory, and José Carlos Marques, director of the School of Education and Social Sciences at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria. The focus was on the recent trend in remittances from Portuguese emigrants, which have risen by 29% over the last decade. Last year, Portuguese nationals living abroad sent over €3.9 billion to Portugal, remaining close to record levels, according to data from the Bank of Portugal. Unlike in 2024, it was emigrants in France who contributed most to this total. A conversation that helps to better understand the economic and social role of remittances and the recent dynamics of Portuguese emigration.

The identity base of Ourém and the cosmopolitan spirit of the 4th Count of Ourém, Dom Afonso, serve as the premise for the September Festival, which will invade the medieval village of Ourém between the 8th and 10th of September. The Emigration Observatory is taking part in the September Festival with the seminar 'Trajectories of Portuguese emigration', which will address the current panorama of Portuguese emigration.

Yesterday the Emigration Report 2019, carried out by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DGACCP, the Camões Institute and the Emigration Observatory was made public. This report includes the most recent information concerning the number of citizens leaving the country, the countries of destination of Portuguese emigrants, the socio-economic, namely school and academic, and geographical characterisation of Portuguese emigrants, the identification and characterisation of the structures and consular responses to support emigrants in each of the destination countries, the identification and characterisation of formal and informal structures to support emigrants in each destination country, as well as the labour, social and economic situation of Portuguese emigrants. +