The Ministério da Educação's 2026 quadro recruitment round closed with 32,514 admitted external applications for 8,465 permanent slots — 24% fewer vacancies than 2025. Pre-school and 1st-cycle dominate the demand stack while Fenprof says the offer falls short of actual school needs.
The June saints' nights in Lisbon, Porto, and Braga: the dates, which towns get a local holiday, what happens each night, and how to get home.
INE's March 2026 release puts national overnight stays at 5.6M (+1.4%) on €432.9M revenue (+6.6%). Madeira crosses one million March nights for the first time. Norte (+8.5%) and Alentejo (+7.2%) lead growth; Brazil –7%, Ireland +16.2%, Spain +14%.
Luís Montenegro's new PTRR packages €22.6bn through 2034 across three pillars — Recover (€5.33bn), Protect (€14.97bn), Respond (€2.32bn). DN/DV's read of the 96-measure annex finds 65% of the headline spend was already locked into October's OE2026.
Paulo Mirpuri died Saturday 2 May 2026. The Lisbon entrepreneur founded Air Luxor in 1988 (peak 2002: 1M passengers, €100M revenue) and Hi Fly in 2005, the charter and ACMI operator that put Portuguese widebodies on every continent and ran the only A380 in the world outside scheduled service.
Brussels has until the end of May to approve Portugal's €516M PRR reprogramming. Schools, housing, primary care and BRT Braga lose; IFIC gets €277.5M, hydrogen €11.9M, forest equipment €14.6M, grid €20M. EMRP flags €500M more at reform-side risk by August. 14 projects sit in critical state.
STTS calls a 24-hour stoppage of every health-sector worker — public, private and social — for Monday 4 May and Tuesday 5 May, with a 10:00 demonstration at Hospital Santa Maria on day two. SEP nurses follow 12 May; lands two days before Concertação Social closes on the pacote laboral.
