Parliament's independent commission on the August 2025 wildfires asked what each one cost. The ANEPC could supply only an annual aggregate of about €18.8 million. No cost per fire, per expense type or per operational phase exists, and the command post's finance cell was never activated.
The Council of Ministers approved the revision on 30 July, creating a national inclusion support system, local support teams, a single development plan per pupil and a named manager for each case. Directors report shortages of speech therapists, occupational therapists and psychologists.
The target was 500 places to move people out of psychiatric hospitals. The tender took three years to open, its deadline was extended eight times, and approvals reached 598 at the end of July. Of four inpatient-unit projects in general hospitals, one is finished.
In June the SNS had 847 retired doctors under contract, 90 more than a year earlier and the most since the scheme began in 2010. More than half are family doctors. The hiring ceiling has risen for a third year running, to 1,111.
A registry and notary workers' union says the backlog across Portugal's conservatorias grew 13% in a single month, from 40,947 to 46,289 delay-days, and accuses the IRN of dropping the global totals from its statistics just as they turned against its recovery narrative.
The Tax Authority has until October to collect €335.2 million owed on EDP's 2020 sale of six Douro dams, or lose the right to it under caducidade rules. The PS is demanding answers; a regional movement warns of a scandalous tax write-off.
Culture Minister Margarida Balseiro Lopes says the Acesso 52 free-museum-days scheme 'is not proving effective' and will be overhauled. Only about 4% of residents used it, at an estimated €10 million cost, and Brussels has opened an infringement case over its treatment of visitors from other EU stat
