News Health Ministry Opens a €50 Million Competitive Grant for Hospital Emergency Departments — Psychiatric Urgência Made the Top Priority, Every Build-Out and Equipment Order Has to Close by End of 2027 27 April 2026
News Two Officers from Lisbon's Esquadra do Rato Sent for Trial on Torture and Sexual-Assault Charges — 13 Vulnerable Victims, 36 Combined Counts, Instructory Decision Read Out on Monday Morning 27 April 2026
News Galp Q1 Net Profit Hits €272 Million, +41% Year-on-Year — Refining Margin Almost Triples to $14.8 a Barrel as Upstream EBITDA Climbs 78% on Brazilian Production 27 April 2026
Health Ordem dos Médicos and Ordem dos Nutricionistas Move to Force Practitioners to Choose Between Medicine and 'Integrative' Therapies — Both Bodies Confirm Deontological-Code Revisions and Push for a Legislative Crackdown on Pseudoscience 27 April 2026
Politics INE Charts the Long Decline of Portuguese Voting — From the 91.7% Constituent-Assembly Peak in 1975 to the 30.7% European Trough in 2019, With a Recent Bounce Back Above 60% 27 April 2026
Justice Friday's SMMP Walkout Drew 75-80% Adhesion — Operação Babel Sentencing Now 8 May, and the Placement-Rule Fight Reshapes the Judicial Calendar 27 April 2026
History Two Hundred Years of the Carta Constitucional — On Wednesday Portugal Hits the Bicentenary of the 1826 Charter, the Single Document That Framed 72 Years of Constitutional Monarchy 27 April 2026
Justice Conselho Superior do MP Wants Porto's Specialised Domestic-Violence Section Shut Down — 82% Archival Rate, Backlog From 2019, and an Inspection Calling Productivity 'Frankly Concerning' 27 April 2026
Banking BES Bad-Bank Creditors Have Started Filing Compensation Claims — Resolution Fund Faces a €650 Million Bill Under the No-Creditor-Worse-Off Principle 27 April 2026
Banking BdP Governor Álvaro Santos Pereira Bought Galp and Jerónimo Martins Shares After Taking Office — ECB Code of Conduct Forced Him to Reverse the Trades 27 April 2026
Economy Sacyr-DST-ACA Become the First Public Bidder for the €5.4 Billion Oiã-Soure High-Speed-Rail Concession — IP's Relaunched Tender Sets a 25 May Deadline After 2024's First Procurement Drew No Valid Offer 27 April 2026
