Justice DCIAP Loses 12 of Its 44 Prosecutors in Under Three Years and an Inspection Finds One in Five Did Not Meet Basic Requirements — The Ministério Público's Top Investigative Unit Heads Into 2026 Short-Staffed and Censured 2 May 2026
Justice GNR Apreende More Than Two Million Untaxed Cigarettes in Guimarães and Detains Three Men Aged 19 to 54 — €622,000 in Commercial Value, €449,000 in Estimated Tax Loss to the State 2 May 2026
Labor Pordata Posts Portugal Fourth in the EU on Youth Precarious Work — 60% of Under-24s and 40% of Workers Under 30 on Temporary Contracts as Frederico Cantante Says Personnel Records Show Even Higher Numbers 2 May 2026
Health President Seguro Hands Adalberto Campos Fernandes the Strategic Pact for Health — Coordination Team Begins Work Monday With a One-Year Mandate to Build Cross-Party Consensus on SNS Reform 2 May 2026
Environment Ministry of Environment Lists 671 Bathing Waters for the 2026 Season — Down From 673 After Winter Storms Knock Five Beaches Off the Map and Santo André, Cerejal and Ilhéu de Vila Franca Join 2 May 2026
Immigration Half of Babies Born in Greater Lisbon in 2025 Have Foreign Mothers as Total Births Climb to 87,764 and the Foreign-Mother Share Hits 35.3% Nationally — Immigration Reverses Portugal's Decade-Long Demographic Decline 2 May 2026
Politics Government Blocks Eutanásia Implementation Three Years After Law 22/2023 Citing Acórdão 307/2025 Constitutional Court Ruling — Portuguese Sign-Ups With Switzerland's Dignitas Climb to 80 2 May 2026
Healthcare Hospital Dona Estefânia Suspends Its External Pediatric Surgery Emergency Until Sunday 20:00 — Anaesthesiology Staff Shortage Strips Lisbon's Main Children's Hospital of Operating-Room Cover Through the May Day Long Weekend 2 May 2026
Politics Chega Files a Comissão Parlamentar de Inquérito to the Operação Influencer on Monday — Ventura Wants António Costa and His Former Ministers Summoned After a New PJ Wiretap on the Sines Data Centre 2 May 2026
Defence Defence Minister Asks the PGR for a Legal Opinion on the NATO Ammunition Depot at Sesimbra-Seixal — Half a Century of Illegal Construction Inside the Military Servitude Zone, Demolition Orders Pending and Population Relocation on the Table 2 May 2026
Economy Eurostat's Workers' Day Drop: 19.5% of Portuguese Employees Routinely Work Weekends, Above the EU Average — Services Hit 47.6% and the Self-Employed Climb to 45.8% 2 May 2026
