Since March 2020, Italy has fined drivers who carry an under-four without an alarm that stops the child being forgotten in the car. Portugal has no such rule. Here is what the Highway Code and Penal Code do say, and what to do if you see a child alone in a car.
The GNR registered 193 scams by people posing as police or inspectors between January 2024 and May 2026, 48 of them this year. Most callers claimed to be from the ASAE or the PJ, and many faked the real number of a police station. Here are the three scripts, the GNR's advice and how to report.
The government approved Portugal's air pollution control programme on 8 October. Its draft plans a Fundo Ambiental line from 2026 to 2030 to swap open fireplaces and stoves for clean heating such as heat pumps, and low-emission zones by 2030. No amount or application date exists yet.
Social Security says you can give a bank, council, university or company direct access to your declarations through its portal or app, instead of printing them. You set an expiry date and can revoke access at any time. How it works, and what is still unclear.
The ICNF register shows nests destroyed from Braga to Faro in 2026, after about 28,500 in 2025. Autumn is when new queens leave to overwinter, so every nest found now counts. Who destroys them, how to report one, and why not to touch it.
The commission says the Catholic blessing at the 21 September opening, attended by Seguro and Montenegro, broke the rule that official acts are non-confessional. It is an advisory body: its finding carries weight but no penalty.
INE's Labour Force Survey found 281,300 people aged 65 or over in work in the second quarter, up 16.8 percent in a year, and Social Security counted almost 129,000 still paying in. What the data show, and the rules for working past pension age.
