Pordata's 1 May data drop puts Portugal fourth in the EU on youth precarious work — roughly 60% of workers under 24 and 40% of workers under 30 are on temporary contracts. CoLABOR sociologist Frederico Cantante says administrative records make the picture even worse.
President António José Seguro has placed healthcare 'a tempo e horas' at the top of his mandate. The Strategic Pact for Health, coordinated by former Health Minister Adalberto Campos Fernandes, begins work on Monday 5 May with a one-year horizon to build cross-party consensus on SNS reform.
The Ministry of Environment and Energy has fixed Portugal's 2026 bathing-water register at 671 sites — 512 coastal and transitional, 159 inland — down two from 2025 after the 2025/2026 winter storm season knocked five beaches off the list. Two new beaches and one Azorean re-entry join.
Approximately 50% of babies born in the Greater Lisbon Metropolitan Area in 2025 had foreign mothers, according to data reported by Público. The national share was 35.3%; total births reached 87,764, up 3.7% on 2024 — the highest in a decade.
The Ministry of Health says it cannot move on assisted-dying regulation without 'segurança jurídica' after the Constitutional Court's Acórdão 307/2025 struck down core provisions of Law 22/2023. The number of Portuguese registered with Switzerland's Dignitas has now reached 80.
Hospital Dona Estefânia has suspended its external paediatric-surgery emergency until Sunday 3 May at 20:00, citing an anaesthesiology staff shortage. The general paediatric ER stays open. SNS 24 (808 24 24 24) handles the redirect to other paediatric-surgery centres.
Chega tables a comissão parlamentar de inquérito to the Operação Influencer on Monday 5 May. Ventura wants ex-PM Costa and his ministers summoned after a new PJ wiretap of a Christmas Eve 2022 call on the Sines data centre. Chega's 60 seats clear the one-fifth potestative threshold.
