With municipal elections due this autumn, the group Cidadãos pela Cibersegurança wants the Government and Parliament to audit — and publicly report on — the security of Portugal's vote-counting and results systems, and is pressing the EU to act on platform X.
Private Telegram and WhatsApp groups circulate scanned books, textbooks and audiobooks free of charge, and APEL now puts the annual loss to Portugal's publishers at more than €75 million — a figure it says a new 2026 study will likely push higher.
Applications to remove swallow nests in Portugal rose from 348 to 397 in a year, and licences granted climbed 20%, ICNF figures show. The Algarve's requests nearly tripled. The nests are protected by law since 1999, and Portugal's barn swallow population has fallen 40% in two decades.
Detections of threats aimed at macOS rose 65% in Portugal in the first half of 2026, nearly double the global rate, according to security firm ESET. A credential-stealing trojan led the pack, phishing accounted for 40% of blocked threats, and only 4.3% of Portuguese small firms apply the full set of
Portuguese pensioners resident in Belgium, Canada, Cape Verde, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the UK and Switzerland must file a mandatory Prova de Vida (proof-of-life) declaration by 15 September 2026 or see payments suspended from November. Social Security says a digital biometric check now needs on
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Your weekly roundup from the Invicta: FC Porto open their I Liga title defence against Alverca, the metro's oldest trains lose air-conditioning above 35°C, the North bakes under drought and fire alerts, and Portugal becomes Europe's second-largest shoemaker.
