The Minister of Finance today warned that Portugal needs more resilience and preparation for extreme events, such as the storms that hit the country at the beginning of the year, highlighting the PTRR plan with EUR 270 million for the next budget.
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12/11/2026
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O minister of Finance said today that Portugal has to prepare for extreme events, such as the storms that struck the country at the beginning of the year, with more resilience and preparation.
In an intervention at a conference in Lisbon, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento stressed that “fortunately, the storm [this Wednesday] ended up having very low effects.”.
Still, he stressed that the country “must prepare for these extreme events, must have more resilience and preparation”.
In this sense, the governor recalled that, after the February storms, the Government launched the Portugal Transformation, Recovery and Resilience plan (PTRR), for which EUR 270 million is foreseen in the next budget.
The depression Charles motivated the activation of the alert situation throughout the territory of mainland Portugal from 00:00 to 23:59 Wednesday.
The National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority recorded more than 1,600 occurrences related to bad weather on the continent, especially floods, falls of trees and collapses, while in Madeira, the first region to suffer the effects of the storm, there were more than 300.
In addition to closing schools and non-essential public services, bad weather motivated the cancellation of a few hundred flights and the cutting of roads.