IVDP authorised 75,000 pipas for 2025, a 28% cut from 2023. Port sales at 65.7M litres, business volume €365M (-2%), Brazil exports -29%. IPMA marks 2025 as Portugal's driest and hottest summer since 1931.
ERS data shows median ULDM wait at 56 days nationally, 134 days in the Algarve. INE puts 65+ at 24.3% of residents and dependency ratio rising 39 to 73 per 100 working-age. PRR's 3,000-bed target is slipping; OE2026 lines €245M.
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Académico de Viseu's 0-0 draw with Sporting B at the Fontelo on Saturday 16 May locks in second place on goal difference over Torreense, ending a 37-year exile from the Primeira Liga and giving Sérgio Fonseca's hometown side a fourth top-flight promotion.
BdP's 2025 Behavioural Supervision Report shows banks returned €8.91M to clients — €8.24M in commissions and €670k in interest — after pricing, suitability and late-payment breaches surfaced. Complaints over account closures jumped 55% and fraud disputes 45%.
Rui Rocha tells Jornal de Notícias the Civil Protection Authority's audit puts the firefighter modernisation gap at €550 million over 10 years — vehicles, quartéis, asbestos removal and aerial ladders sit at the top, funded through the PTRR envelope.
Pre-hospital emergency technicians have called a 21 May 10h vigil at the Ministry of Health in Lisbon against the INEM Lei Orgânica approved by the Council of Ministers on 8 May. Four ex-presidents and the Workers' Committee back the critique — VMER, AEM and SIV transfers under fire.
