General news and current affairs from across Portugal.
The Banco de Portugal puts public debt at 88.4 percent of GDP at the end of September, down 4.2 points in a quarter and the lowest ratio since 2009. Debt stood at 284.9 billion euros after a 2 billion euro repayment to an EU bailout fund.
The average rate on new housing loans rose for a sixth month to 3.06 percent in September, Bank of Portugal data show, while new term deposits paid 1.82 percent after an eighth rise. Mixed-rate loans now make up 85.6 percent of new lending.
Água & Sal, Dunas Livres, GEOTA, Quercus, SPEA and Zero have gone to the Beja administrative court against the approval of an irrigated orchard whose 12 boreholes could take 1.74 million cubic metres a year from the aquifer that supplies Alcácer do Sal and Grândola.
The Danish shoemaker told staff in São João de Ver on Monday that it is starting the legal procedure to close the plant it opened in 1984. Here is what the Labour Code and Social Security rules give workers facing a collective dismissal.
Lisbon's administrative court says the 1974 law's 00:30 limit on protests is not absolute and orders police not to remove one protester's tent on the Rossio until the final 2027 budget vote, on conditions. It did not legalise the wider camp.
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Almost seven in ten people aged 18 to 34 would change their plans for children if they had to look after a relative, a Merck survey finds. Here is who qualifies as an informal carer in Portugal and how to apply to Social Security.
