The Tribunal de Contas (Court of Audit) released on Tuesday 9 June 2026 a long-awaited audit of the Plano Lisboa 65+ — the municipal health-and-wellbeing programme Mayor Carlos Moedas launched at the Paços do Concelho on 20 October 2022...
SNS data released 9 June puts more than 3,500 patients in Portuguese hospital beds despite clinical discharge — a 25% jump from APAH's 2,807 in March. The €350M cost is the visible price of an RNCCI bottleneck and an informal-care system funding 8,000 of 200,000 caregivers.
INE's April 2026 international trade release lifts Portuguese exports +15.5% YoY — the strongest pace since July 2024 — with fuels at +32%, Spain at +11.1%, France at +12.5% and Germany at +12%, narrowing the bilateral deficit by €149M.
The Mirandela Administrative and Tax Court issued a third providência cautelar against Savannah Resources' Mina do Barroso on 9 June, halting geotechnical work after a joint Baldio de Covas do Barroso and UDCB filing — a test of Minister Carvalho's 'praga' framing.
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The 2026 edition of the AirHelp Score, the global airport ranking the Polish compensation-claims platform publishes annually, lands Lisbon's Humberto Delgado airport at 274th of 279 airports analysed , only five places off the bottom of the table....
Statistics Portugal puts the Índice de Custos de Construção de Habitação Nova at +5.9% year-on-year in April — a 0.2 pp acceleration on March — with labour contributing 3.4 points and materials 2.5 points to the headline cost squeeze that keeps Portuguese developer margins tight.
