The Constitutional Court's plenary decided cases 975/25 and 743/26 on 3 November. The Prime Minister's office says the judges again did not rule on the substance, and that all his declarations are already public.
Because a Lisbon judge refused to apply part of the 1974 protest law on constitutional grounds, prosecutors must appeal to the Constitutional Court. What the judges can decide, why one ruling would not scrap the 00:30 rule, and Monday's other developments.
A September ruling that the method used to value wind parks for IMI is unconstitutional now hangs over 266 council lawsuits against dam and wind operators, with 33.8 million euros at stake in the North alone.
Ruling 775/2026 upholds the rule that a driver whose licence is cancelled after losing every point gets one court challenge and no appeal, even though the prosecutor backed the driver. What it means, and how the points system leads to a two-year wait for a new licence.
Ruling 845/2026 declares unconstitutional, for everyone it covers, the retroactive 2024 rule that kept public workers who left the State after 2006 and came back out of the CGA. Many are teachers. What it changes, what it does not, and what comes next.
The Ombudsman says Law 34/2026, in force since 1 September, trades defence rights for speed: confessions as proof in serious cases, witnesses dropped from trial, simplified trials for any crime, and fines for delaying tactics.
A bill approved on 8 October puts the high value-added activities behind NHR's 20 percent IRS rate into law, without widening them, for people still under the transitional rules. Its text is not yet public. What the April ruling said, and what NHR holders should know.
