Breaking news and developing stories from across Portugal.
The Provedoria de Justiça opened its inquiry into transport accessibility in Lisbon and Porto precisely because so few people were complaining. At Oriente it counted five of fourteen platform lifts out of service, and in Lisbon a fifth of the bus fleet is not accessible.
A draft ordinance would finally switch on a power written into the Notarial Statute in 2004, letting notaries issue apostilles through a platform run by the Ordem dos Notários. The CNPD cleared it on 8 September with five changes, from retention periods to blocking AI crawlers.
Two decree-laws in Wednesday's gazette rebuild the careers of the people who supervise prisoners and ankle tags, backdate the package to 1 July 2025, and abolish the prison administrator career outright. Paragraph 6 leaves the guard corps out.
The Infraestruturas de Portugal study sent to Brussels concludes that migrating the national network to European gauge will hardly be justifiable. Spain reached the same conclusion in July, and Spain is the country whose decision settles Portugal's.
INE's ICCHN eased 0.6 points on the previous month, and for the first time this year labour and materials contributed equally at 3.4 percentage points each. The month-on-month change was zero. PVC pipe is up 20 percent and bitumen 15.
ANMP president Pedro Pimpao says the current share dates from the troika-era 2013 amendment and no longer makes sense. The association also wants a cut of fuel taxes and of the Fundo Ambiental, and sight of the draft before anyone else sees it.
Lidio Lopes stands down from 1 October, two years short of his term. He names Antonio Nunes, describes a threat to create a Superior Firefighters Academy inside the school, and puts more than a million euros of wasted ANEPC training money on the record.
