A draft decree-law rewrites the pay scales for conservadores and oficiais de registos in three steps from 2025 to 2027. It arrives while the conservatórias carry a backlog that grew 13 percent in a month and a company-formation service that now takes months.
Two bills filed on Thursday would give children of Portuguese or EU nationality precedence for school places, and children of Portuguese-origin households whose parents pay social security precedence for creche places, whenever applicants outnumber vacancies.
Luís Montenegro confirmed at Lisbon airport on Thursday that full biometric collection starts on 6 September. That is the day the partial-suspension mechanism expires, the one Portugal and eight other governments asked Brussels in July to keep open.
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ERSE's second-quarter commodities bulletin puts Portuguese wholesale electricity at €55.6 a megawatt hour, Brent at a record 145 dollars on 7 April, and the renewable share of consumption down from 77 to 69 percent.
Caldas da Rainha disclosed on Thursday that pseudomonas was found in the water plant of the Hospital Termal Rainha D. Leonor, billed as the oldest working thermal hospital in the world. Treatments have been suspended for a week, with no reopening date.
The Defence Ministry confirms a €133 million order for 75 Urovesa VAMTACs for the Navy's fuzileiros, financed by the EU's SAFE instrument, with a Portugal to Spain memorandum signed in Porto and deliveries running from 2027 to 2029.
