The government is adding about €630 million to health under the final revision of the PRR, funding 492 health units, thousands of continued-care beds and four new emergency-medical helicopters — all before the programme's 31 August deadline.
A wildfire that broke out near Ervões on 12 August has burned around 15,000 hectares across Valpaços, Mirandela and Vinhais, destroying vineyards and olive groves and forcing evacuations. Mayor Jorge Mata Pires has asked the government to declare a state of calamity.
A CBRE report puts institutional buying of Iberian farmland at €600 million in 2025, up about 50%, and names Portugal — above all the irrigated Alentejo around Alqueva — as a prime target for the funds chasing land, water and food.
Expresso reports Portugal will pay around 25% more than Italy for near-identical Fincantieri frigates — over €1 billion a ship against Italy's €750 million. The government blames the inflation clause in the EU's SAFE defence loans; the governing coalition wants Nuno Melo to explain.
A new scholarship regulation lifts the monthly housing top-up for displaced grant-holders from about €92 to around €161 and scraps the rental-contract requirement, so students need only show they were refused a residence place. Settled foreign-resident families can qualify.
