Self-Defence Law in Portugal
Article 32 of the penal code, the necessary means test, why fear excuses going too far, citizen's arrest, and the pepper spray that is a crime to carry.
The Portugal Brief
A Porto-Founded Unicorn Is Buying Headspace, and the Only Reason Anyone Knows Is a Filing in Massachusetts
Sword Health has agreed to acquire OrangeDot, the parent of Headspace, in an all-cash deal effective 14 September. Neither company has announced it. Headspace was valued at about $3 billion in 2021; trade reporting puts this price at $200 million to $300 million.
The Fires Called Vouzela and Valpaços Are Now Officially a Natural Catastrophe, and the 10 Million Euros Follows 32 Parishes Across Nine Councils
A despacho signed on 26 August recognises the 2 to 7 July and 28 July to 2 August fires as a natural catastrophe. It puts €10 million behind farms that lost more than 30 percent of their productive potential, and the window shuts at 17:00 on 27 October.
Fishing Portugal's Rivers and Reservoirs
The ICNF licence, the 23.93 euro national card, where your sea licence stops working, the trout calendar, and the fish you are forbidden to put back.
A Porto Court Freezes the Bolhão Auction Where One Fish Stall Went for 7,550 Euros a Month, Twenty-Two Times Its Base Price
The Tribunal Administrativo e Fiscal do Porto has admitted a popular action filed by a traders' association on 30 July, freezing the contracts from the 14 July auction. Mayor Pedro Duarte calls it a normal procedure and says the market's operation is untouched.
Timor-Leste's 10 Million Dollar Gift Turns Into 23 Forest Fire Engines for 17 Northern Councils, One Year to the Day After Dili Approved It
CCDR-Norte signed 23 contracts in Penafiel on Thursday, worth up to €4,312,500, with volunteer brigades in Baião, Braga, Porto, Valpaços and thirteen other councils. The donation covers 75 percent of each truck, capped at €187,500, and they must be operational by 30 April 2027.
Up to €288 a Month More, Backdated to July 2025: the Plan to Make Portugal's Registry Careers Attractive Again
A draft decree-law rewrites the pay scales for conservadores and oficiais de registos in three steps from 2025 to 2027. It arrives while the conservatórias carry a backlog that grew 13 percent in a month and a company-formation service that now takes months.