Acordarte, which runs the Academia de Musica de Lisboa, challenged the 14 August sponsorship-contract tender as manifestly illegal and unconstitutional. Filing the case automatically barred the ministry from publishing the provisional lists, and the school year has started.
The association representing Maritime Police inspectors and chiefs filed at the Lisbon Administrative Circuit Court against the State and the Navy's military command, citing 182 admissions in ten years against a legal minimum of 722, and drawing the comparison with SEF.
Pedro Duarte says a failed handover of units and equipment left the city unable to apply inside the Recovery Plan window, so the municipal budget absorbed a bill drawn up on the assumption of EU money. Two centres are open; the two costly ones finish in 2028.
The Regional Government Council approved the compensation mechanism on Thursday. It is aimed at owners and operators working inside a protected network that now covers 287,000 square kilometres, and it runs alongside a national envelope of up to 10 million euros.
OesteCIM asked the Environment Agency on Thursday for a negative impact statement on the 101-hectare open-pit concession in Peniche. Its objection is not extraction as such, but this project at this location, at this size, for twenty years, for twelve jobs.
Your weekly roundup from the capital: a protocol takes the meter out of the Lisbon airport taxi rank from 15 October, the city executive would make a café sweep five metres of pavement, Web Summit's contract runs out in 2028 with rival suitors, and two Rato officers go on trial.
Good morning. Here is your Saturday briefing for 12 September 2026: the day's essential Portugal stories for residents, expats and anyone keeping an eye on the country, running from a
