The Procuradoria-Geral da República has approved a binding Carta para a Utilização Ética da Inteligência Artificial that forbids prosecutors from using AI to forecast conviction probability, score recidivism risk, or recommend pretrial detention.
SNS data released 9 June puts more than 3,500 patients in Portuguese hospital beds despite clinical discharge — a 25% jump from APAH's 2,807 in March. The €350M cost is the visible price of an RNCCI bottleneck and an informal-care system funding 8,000 of 200,000 caregivers.
Portaria 476/2025 fixes Portugal's 2027 retirement age at 66 years and 11 months — two months above 2026. The 2026 sustainability factor rises to 17.63%, life expectancy at 65 hits 20.19 years, and only very-long-career workers keep full exemption.
Government publishes a temporary decree-law on Friday 22 May 2026 that lets Títulos de Reserva de Capacidade be split, aggregated, renounced, exchanged or transferred through 30 June 2027. Renúncia inside thirty days returns 100% of the auction bond; after that the recovery drops to 80%.
Saturday 16 May Ministry of Health note to Lusa confirms specialists who left the SNS before the new diploma enters into force serve a one-year tarefeiro lock-out, not two — saving more than 2,000 doctors from a retroactive ban as the 31 December 2026 transitional window runs.
Zero warns Portugal's 2024 emissions inventory cut just 3% to 51.5 Mt CO₂-eq — well below the pace needed for the PNEC 55% target by 2030. Transport carries 35.2% of the total, fuel use ran 2.5% higher in Q1 2026, and the PNCPA 2030 is still in public consultation seven years past the EU deadline.
Energy Secretary of State Jean Barroca said on Friday that high-income foreigners who do not declare income in Portugal are drawing the tarifa social de eletricidade through automatic enrolment. With 760,000 households enrolled — identical to Spain — the rules will be tightened.
