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Portugal's only underground gas store, at CarriƧo, was 95.5 percent full on its last confirmed day, well above the EU's 74.7 percent. Most of the country's gas arrives by ship at Sines, and regulated household prices rose 6.4 percent on 1 October.
Fenprof says the Government approved the decree before the final round of union talks it was legally bound to hold. The new system, with a daily contest for temporary posts, starts in 2027/2028; the Ombudsman can only recommend.
Since 2019 the law has required a yearly report to Parliament on the state of housing. The first, covering 2024, was due by June 2025. The ministry says it is finished but gives no date for sending it, and gives no update on the 2025 report.
Variable-rate home loans reviewed in November are repriced on October's Euribor averages. On our arithmetic, a 150,000 euro, 30-year loan pays about 89 euros more a month on the 12-month index, 44 on six months and 18 on three months.
From 1 November the Santa Casa da MisericĆ³rdia runs SĆ£o JoĆ£o da Madeira's hospital for the SNS: referred consultations in 15 specialties, a basic emergency service and day surgery, for 13.85 million euros a year over 10 years. Doctors' union says the benefits are unproven.
The PSP broke up the housing protest camps in Lisbon's Rossio and Porto's PraƧa D. JoĆ£o I at about 04:30 on Sunday, the third removal since 20 October. Organisers count at least 10 detained in Lisbon and 38 injured in Porto; police figures are still awaited.
