General news and current affairs from across Portugal.
In the EIB's 2026 Climate Survey, 68 percent in Portugal say energy prices cut their purchasing power significantly, against 60 percent across the EU. Fewer cut food or heating than the EU average. Here is the help already available.
Miguel Stilwell de Andrade will leave EDP when his term ends at the 2027 shareholders' meeting. An international search is under way, and nothing changes for customers in the meantime.
ERSE closed its case against Iberdrola's Portuguese retailer on 2 November. The company admitted switching customers without express consent, short gas reserves, bill errors, slow phone answering and late compensation, and settled for half the fine.
The Education Minister told MPs that Mathematics will be part of a common core in Years 10 to 12 on every course. The new secondary curriculum goes to consultation in December and would apply from 2028/29; a count of pupils without lessons follows on 14 December.
The Infrastructure Minister announced a study of a metro link south from Gaia on the Vouga line corridor, as Porto and IP signed deals on the VCI, two outer ring roads and the Circunvalação. The lorry ban's first figures, and housing plans for the Salgueiros site.
Immigrants with five years on a temporary residence permit can now ask AIMA online for a permanent residence appointment. The two files to attach, the six conditions the form lists, what Lei 23/2007 adds, and how it differs from EU long-term status.
ULS Gaia/Espinho has scanned 1,083 heavy smokers and ex-smokers aged 55 to 74 and found 12 lung cancers with no symptoms. It now joins TIME4LUNG, an 8.7 million euro project testing a blood sample as a first step before the low-dose CT scan.
