Good morning. Here is your Tuesday briefing for 25 August 2026: the day's essential Portugal stories for residents, expats and anyone keeping an eye on the country, running from the
Patrimonio Cultural, IP has opened a 30-day consultation on the draft decision to inscribe the fair in the national inventory. Deputy mayor Diogo Rosa calls it one more step, and says the main objective is for the process to move on to UNESCO. That would be the council's second UNESCO recognition.
The Ministerio Publico charged the two PSP agents in July 2025 with sequestro and homicide. Aissa Ait Aissa died of a brain contusion 20 days after being beaten on a track at Pechao, outside the officers' patrol area, while handcuffed. The Tribunal de Faro sits on 8, 11 and 25 September.
Gas da Terra wants to treat 84,000 tonnes of livestock effluent a year at Abrigada e Cabanas de Torres, with 30 lorries a day. The mayor says the council approved only a preliminary information request and sets one test: guarantee no odours, or it cannot be built.
The current network of more than 160 emergency services rests on an architecture defined over a decade ago. A working group under anaesthetist Antonio Marques da Silva is assessing which specialties should be concentrated regionally, with orthopaedics in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo named as a candidate.
President Seguro promulgated the decree-law on Monday. It covers metro and light metro, classic and modern trams, tourist light rail, and the lifts and funiculars that entered service before 1 January 1986. The IMT licenses the activity; the AMT takes safety certification and enforcement.
STEPH's strike notice for 14 and 28 September asks INEM to keep all 56 emergency ambulances, drop the plan to turn life-support ambulances into cars, and open two emergency ambulances in every council without one by the end of 2027. Only five councils have two or more today.
