📋 In This Edition * TVDE Drivers and Operators March on Lisbon Wednesday * Copernicus and WMO Confirm Europe Warming Twice as Fast as the Global Average * Violence Against SNS Healthcare Professionals Climbs to Record
Infarmed switches on a public online tracker for SNS-funded medication on Wednesday, 29 April, integrating funding-decision metadata into the Infomed repository. Citizens can search by INN, brand or therapeutic indication.
Deloitte's 2025 Digital Consumer Trends Portugal edition finds 70% of adults now use generative AI — up from 41% two years ago. ChatGPT leads with 61% direct use and 76% awareness; 85% of Gen Z, 44% of boomers. Trust scores run twenty points below the European mean.
Cert.pt logged 3,864 cybersecurity incidents in Portugal in 2025, up 40% on 2024, with about half exploiting the human factor through phishing and fraud. Internet Safety Line contacts rose 39% to 949, with 13% of victims being children or young people.
Violence against SNS healthcare professionals jumped 33% to a record 3,429 cases in 2025, with 60% psychological and 21% physical. Ordem dos Médicos warns the real figure is higher and points to the April 2025 law making assaults on healthcare workers public crimes.
Copernicus and the WMO confirm Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average, with 2025 logging 1.034 million hectares burned and 95% of the continent above the 1991-2020 mean. Portugal posted a fifth-hottest year and six heat waves, including a 16-day August stretch.
TVDE drivers and operators converged on Lisbon Wednesday for a thousand-strong protest, demanding higher platform tariffs, opposing taxis entering the TVDE regime, and pressing for a fuel-support mechanism as Lei n.º 45/2018 goes through its first revision.
