Your weekly roundup from the Invicta: Pedro Duarte weighs free public transport as early as this summer, Metro do Porto's metrobus edges toward service, a red-alert heatwave settles over the north, FC Porto opens pre-season at Olival, and the Coliseu bets on the city's new bands.
📘 New Guide Published Paying the IMI Municipal Property Tax in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to Taxable Property Values, the 0.3%–0.45% Municipal Rates, the May–August–November Instalments,
From Monday 6 July, diesel is expected to rise about three cents a litre and petrol about two, even as crude weakens. The Finance Ministry is lifting its ISP fuel-tax rebate to offset part of the increase, leaving averages near EUR1.80 for diesel and EUR1.90 for petrol.
The Public Prosecutor's Office has charged eleven volunteer firefighters from Fundao, aged 22 to 53 and including a chief and subchief, over the alleged rape and sexual coercion of a 19-year-old recruit in September 2025. The commander has resigned; all are presumed innocent.
ACAP data show the Tesla Model 3 was Portugal's best-selling car in June 2026 with 1,231 units, up 77% year-on-year, ahead of the Peugeot 2008 and Dacia Sandero. A EUR4,000 state EV grant runs until 27 July, and BYD's new Dolphin undercuts rivals from about EUR29,994.
A decree making loss of nationality an accessory penalty for grave crimes is heading for rejection again. The Constitutional Court struck it down as discriminatory, the President refused to promulgate, and Parliament lacks the two-thirds majority to override. Chega threatens a referendum.
ACM (Alchemy & Critical Metals) has reserved a 131,000 m2 plot in the Sines industrial zone to build a refinery producing 10,000 tonnes of antimony a year — a metal on the EU critical-raw-materials list — with around 150 direct jobs and operations targeted for 2030.
