The government's administrative-justice reform, now six bills before Parliament, would stop public prosecutors intervening in state lawsuits worth up to €15,000 — one piece of a push to clear courts where cases average 861 days.
The state employed 768,378 people at the end of June 2026, a new high, official DGAEP data show — up 1% on the year, with local councils, health and education driving the growth as public pay outpaces inflation.
Portugal already knows how to protect its soil and forests from a changing climate, a new report argues. What it lacks is the nerve to set targets, the centralised data to back them and the institutions to turn science into policy.
The Socialists open Portugal's political autumn on Sunday in Olhão with a frontal attack on the government over the cost of living, health and crisis response — while keeping their real leverage, the 2027 State Budget, in reserve.
Four years after Portugal auctioned its reservoirs for floating solar, five of six plants have failed and EDP has abandoned the biggest — the Grande Lago on the Alqueva. Wildlife rules and thin economics explain a stalled bet.
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At a fire-brigade centenary in Celorico de Basto, President Antonio Jose Seguro warned that Portugal cannot keep treating road deaths as fate, citing 589 people killed in 2025 and about 300 already this year. 'Let us stop this tragedy.'
