The judicial holidays fixed by Article 28 of Lei 62/2013 end on 31 August, so the courts reopen in full on Tuesday, 1 September. Civil procedural deadlines that suspended on 16 July start running again, and September's calendar already holds Marques, BES, Tutti Frutti and the Rato torture trial.
Diogo Paupério Abreu was the Portuguese member of SOLIS100, six volunteers confined to 130 square metres in Cologne from May to August. He is now starting a doctorate at INESC TEC in Porto.
A portaria in force from 31 August lifts the ISP on diesel by €9.98 per 1,000 litres and on petrol by €2.36. The government is narrowing the rebate because it expects the underlying price to drop.
A GNR inspection in the Oeste on 27 August produced ten formal records. Eight of them fall on the workers, one on the building's drainage, and none on the accommodation itself.
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INE puts trade turnover up 2.0 percent year on year in July but sector employment down 1.6 percent. Specialised food shops, the butchers, bakers and fishmongers, shed 8.1 percent of their staff and were the only category where pay also fell.
Closing the 22nd PSD summer university at Castelo de Vide, the prime minister announced a Universidade de Bragança e do Norte Interior, a general election for school directors, and conceded that this year's digital exam marking did not go well.
