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A gazette supplement published on Monday sets out how to divide, merge, surrender or move a grid capacity reservation. It also obliges the network operators to publish, for the first time, how much capacity is free at every interconnection point.
The September Comparar para Crescer snapshot from the Business Roundtable Portugal puts hourly output at 66.9 percent of the EU average in 2025, below the 67.6 percent of 2000, while the employment rate hit a record 79.6 percent.
The government is turning six years of recovery-fund spending on traditional crafts into permanent policy through the Rede Portuguesa Saber Fazer. Membership applications open in October and the first funding call lands before the end of the year.
273,723 people were signed on at the job centres at the end of August, a second consecutive monthly rise but still 9.3 percent below a year ago. Every level of schooling fell over twelve months except higher education, which rose 1 percent.
Portaria n.º 433/2026/1 subsidises 75 percent of the interest on money borrowed to pay growers for the 2025 and 2026 crops. Applicants must not have bought wine from outside Portugal in three consecutive campaigns, and must promise not to.
Fewer rural slaughterhouses, long distances and transport costs that wipe out the margin. The government's answer is a slaughterhouse that drives to the animals, licensed by the CCDR for its parking place.
Ana Paula Casaca replaces a chair who resigned, inherits a mandate that expires at the end of the year, and keeps her seat on the board that steers European deep-tech money.
