📋 In This Edition * A Benavente Detergent Plant Is the Portuguese Half of a £170 Million Deal * Tech: The Portuguese Marketplace Heading Past €80 Million on Other People's Scrapyards * Estate Agents
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.
Draft Resolution 1216, tabled on 28 August, buys the government until late October to deliver the report Law 142/85 demands. Fátima's parish bodies are in favour, Ourém has reserved its position, and Portugal has not created a municipality since 1998.
Nova's nanotechnology institute has agreed with the Macau University of Science and Technology to train its students in Lisbon from 2027/2028, with 35 to 55 a year expected. The university making the commitment still has no confirmed rector.
At 8.42 on 31 August 1926 the Faial to Pico channel moved, and 4,138 houses on an island of twenty thousand people came down. A historian marking the centenary asks whether the rebuilding that followed was ever properly supervised.
Lei 47/2026 takes effect on 1 September, and the printed text is far more specific than the summary that circulated in August. Six months to decide, a provisional permit from day one, and a rule turning three months of foreign silence into a presumption of statelessness.
