ANA's new car park and drop-off rules for ten Portuguese airports take effect on 25 September: 60 to 300 euros for light breaches, bans of up to a year for serious ones, and a 24-hour charge for a lost ticket.
Transtejo Soflusa went card only at its staffed Lisbon ticket office on 14 September. An association has asked for the legal basis. Euro cash is legal tender, but what that obliges was left to a 2010 recommendation, and Portugal attaches no penalty to a refusal.
The insurance regulator's 2025 scorecard puts the average premium per insured person at 437.21 euros, individual policies at 452.38 and employer schemes at 423.90. It also counted 3,954 closed complaints, most of them about a claim rather than a price.
Two hours from Lisbon can pass 500 euros return. Four hours from Praia sits near 218. The chamber stops short of alleging collusion and asks for an in-depth look at capacity management.
The Bank of Portugal set the fourth-quarter consumer credit ceilings on Friday. Personal credit falls, car credit rises in all four categories, and credit cards hold at 18.5 percent. The caps are a measurement of last quarter's market, not a decision about the next one.
ERSAR published the Regulamento Tarifario dos Servicos de Aguas on Thursday. It binds state and municipal operators alike, fixes the domestic bands at 0 to 5, 5 to 15, 15 to 25 and above 25 cubic metres, and bans charges for signing a contract or installing a meter.
How long a creditor has to claim a debt in Portugal, from six months on utility bills to 20 years after a judgment, and what restarts the clock.
