General news and current affairs from across Portugal.
The bar association and the solicitadores' body launch "Tem de estar em Ordem", a campaign against illicit legal practice with a site linking both official registers. Here is how to check an adviser and what the law says.
About 42 percent of households in Portugal were repaying debt in 2024, most often a mortgage, and the burden peaks between 35 and 44. What the corrected survey shows, and the PARI, PERSI and RACE help available if repayments slip.
The SNS gets another 1,538 million euros for medicines and diagnostic exams, authorised in September, Público reports. Budget office data show about 1.1 billion went to pharmacy medicines in the third quarter. Nothing changes at the counter.
President Seguro's advisory Council of State meets at 15:00 today at Belém on social cohesion, after a third police clearance of the housing camps. In Porto the tents stayed up overnight, and 13 people detained on Sunday go before judges.
The STTS union's 24-hour public sector strike runs all of Monday 2 November. It is not the Frente Comum's 20 November walkout. What the union wants, which services must keep running, and how to check your child's school.
A study in Geophysical Research Letters finds that the atmospheric rivers behind Portugal's 2025 to 2026 storms matched, and locally exceeded, the moisture transport simulated for the early stages of the highest-emissions scenario.
The DGS's third seasonal report counts 1,339,486 flu jabs and 600,160 Covid-19 boosters to 25 October. Flu coverage among over-60s runs from 39.75 percent in the North to 21.25 percent in the Algarve.
