A portaria setting hourly rates for medicos tarefeiros was due with the rest of the SNS package and has not appeared. Their association says a cut brings a massive stoppage, and hospitals have until 30 September to sign contracts nobody can price.
Carlos Moedas told the municipal assembly on Tuesday that the 10 cent container deposit is a tax and an unprecedented social drama, and asked for immediate cancellation. The Environment Minister says the scheme stays, with adjustments.
The FIA published the 2027 calendar on Wednesday, putting Portugal ninth of 24 rounds and directly after Monaco. The return had been agreed; what Wednesday added was the date, and a mid-June slot the Algarve does not currently fill.
Parliament's budget office reports a two billion euro swing against last year, almost all of it a cash-basis effect from paying off overdue SNS supplier bills. Social Security, meanwhile, banked its strongest seven months in a decade.
A decree-law published in Wednesday's gazette bans new level crossings outright, sets measured thresholds for closing the ones that remain, and writes a civil liability chapter that defines when the infrastructure manager is at fault. It starts on 1 March 2027.
Good morning. Here is your Wednesday briefing for 16 September 2026: the day's essential Portugal stories for residents, expats and anyone keeping an eye on the country, running from new
Forty-six of the 58 came from members of the public, and television debates drove eighteen of them. The 2015 law measures a candidacy by its last result, which a presidential candidate does not have.
