The Tribunal da Relação de Lisboa ruled on Thursday that the case over the 2012 EDP Continente card partnership has not expired, reversing a March decision that had voided €34.4 million in fines. The authority says 19 cases worth over €880 million face the same clock.
An armoured dinosaur that died about 155 million years ago has been found roughly 85% complete in a cliff at the mouth of the Sizandro river in Torres Vedras. Preserved belly-down with its armour still in place, it may be the oldest ankylosaur yet identified in continental Europe.
INE's farm yearbook shows Portugal covered just 16.8% of its cereal needs in 2024/25 while olive oil hit 247.9% on the second-best campaign ever. Wine output fell 14%, the agrifood trade deficit widened to €6.3 billion, and real farm income per worker dropped 4.5%.
The GPIAAF's final report on the September 2024 INEM helicopter accident at a Mondim de Basto quarry finds wrong coordinates, an alternative landing site nobody told the crew about, and a dust-cloud brownout on final approach. All four aboard escaped with minor injuries.
CIVISA raised the Pico volcano's alert level to V1 on Thursday after a swarm of small earthquakes from 05:48 on the mountain's southern flank. The strongest, magnitude 2.4, was felt at intensity III/IV in São Caetano and Candelária. The alert signals closer monitoring, not an imminent eruption.
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ACEA data show 137,080 new cars registered in Portugal in H1 2026, up 10.5% against the EU's 5.7%. Battery-electric models took a 25.3% share — above the EU's 20.7% — while diesel collapsed to 3.7%. Some 68% of new Portuguese cars now carry an electric motor.
