Sociedade Palácio da Comenda has been suing since July 2025 to have Rasca, Comenda, Rainha, Maria Esguelha and Albarquel declared private. Lei 54/2005 makes it prove ownership before 31 December 1864, and the public right of passage survives even if it wins.
September is the second general step down on the island this year, after Bel's 1.5 cents and August cuts by Lactogal, Insulac and Prolacto. Jorge Rita says diesel is rising 16.3 cents a litre, and the €23 million of war-related aid paid on the mainland never reached the Azores.
The Europol and Eurojust SIRIUS report puts Portugal tenth in the EU on volume and third from bottom on success, at 59 percent against a 76 percent average. It filed five emergency requests all year; France filed 19,186. The mandatory e-Evidence regime took over on 18 August.
The Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro withdrew the honour on Thursday, 85 years after the Universidade do Brasil conferred it. The citation names censorship, repression, colonial policy and the academics the Estado Novo forced out. It landed in the same year as a propaganda pact.
The base rate on Série F cannot exceed 2.50 percent, and the three-month Euribor has not closed below that since 17 August. August paid 2.474. September stops at the cap, the first time since March 2025. Borrowers keep paying the rise; savers do not.
Only two companies bid. VASP has held the market alone since 2017 and two regulators call it a monopoly. The preliminary report puts it first in both lots at €763,000 a year, and Pergaminhoflash says the winning sales-point count includes a dwelling house, a fire brigade and twelve CTT branches.
