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REPMUS 2026 runs to 25 September off Troia and Sesimbra: 1,500 participants from 36 navies, 60 companies, 13 universities, 14 ships and more than 300 unmanned craft across 1,370 square kilometres of water. Portugal has hosted all 16 editions.
Decreto-Lei 172/2026 exempts SIS, SIED and the rest of the SIRP from legally certified accounts. In their place comes one classified management report a year, signed by the agency head, delivered on paper to the parliamentary Oversight Council.
The regulator says NOS changed 821,641 contracts in one standardised move without giving each subscriber 30 days' written notice and the right to leave free of charge. Vodafone was fined 160,000 euros in July on the same grounds. Both are appealing.
The three FREMM EVO ships cost about 3.9 billion euros, funded by an EU SAFE loan. Asked what the interest will be, Defence and Finance each pointed at the other. On the instrument's outer terms the interest alone could run between 1.1 and 3.2 billion.
The 2026 organisational development plans are still unapproved, so SNS units cannot make permanent offers and are limited to six-month contracts. The Order of Nurses calls it a waste and puts the national shortfall at about 14,000. The same delay ran through 2025.
INE's flash estimate puts August at 3.3 percent, up three tenths on July, and says the acceleration is almost entirely fuel. Core inflation moved a single tenth to 2.7 percent. Energy prices are up 12.2 percent on the year. Definitive data lands on 10 September.
