The Socialist Party wants the local-government inspectorate abolished in the 2011 austerity reorganisation brought back. The Inspectorate-General of Finance that took over its work publishes every council report it signs, and that archive is the clearest measure of what the merger cost.
The Porto Commercial Association's study, coordinated by Pedro Passos Coelho, Sergio Sousa Pinto and Nuno Botelho, describes a low-growth equilibrium in which recent gains came from more people working rather than from productivity. It goes to the President and the Government.
The association representing Maritime Police inspectors and chiefs filed at the Lisbon Administrative Circuit Court against the State and the Navy's military command, citing 182 admissions in ten years against a legal minimum of 722, and drawing the comparison with SEF.
Nuno Brito, ambassador to London since 2022, will preside over the commission monitoring defence investment and the European SAFE instrument. A second body audits the money separately.
The education minister announced the total in Beja while inaugurating two of them, and put the overshoot at about 40. Against a target of 365, the arithmetic gives 37.
BlackRoute and Ethiack delivered Digital Sentinel and AI Ethical Hacking to the Cyberdefence Operations Command. Both went into use in June and were validated by ARTE and the European Commission on 31 August.
The European Commission's payment monitor was updated on Thursday. Portugal has received 5.43 billion euros, of which 3.8 billion are interim payments tied to invoices, against a European average of 28.4 percent.
