The CICLAA regulation makes the region's new bike-share free for verified residents and workers, charges everyone else a deposit, and sets fines of 250 to 1,500 euros for overstaying, abandoning a bike or carrying a passenger.
Portaria 436/2026/1 reverses the subtraction at the heart of the 12 million euro Douro support, so the payment now grows with the share of a grower's normal crop left on the vine, and the IVDP gets 15 new days to open applications.
The Ombudsman's 2025 report counts 15,342 complainants, up 30.1 percent, and 31 percent of them complained about foreign citizens' entry and residence. It lists AIMA failures from a portal that shut out CPLP applicants to an asylum claim pending since 2016.
After a summer of cut-offs on the Caparica coast, Almada and Seixal will sign a borehole licence in October, and an agreement with EPAL opens a study of a supply link from Lisbon. The Environment Minister says the new airport makes a resilient peninsula supply urgent.
The national mental health coordinator puts the number of patients kept in psychiatric hospitals for lack of community places at 300-odd, and the continuing-care network at 590 places. Intensive rehabilitation units for Lisbon, Coimbra and Porto are waiting on a government decision.
The Superior Council of the Public Prosecution Service backs the aim of three bills to reopen the donor lists that went dark after a data-protection ruling, while faulting the PS text for vagueness and the BE text for lacking any proportionality.
Maria José Costeira, a judge at Lisbon's commercial court for seventeen years and a former head of the Portuguese judges' association, was elected Vice-President of the General Court of the EU until August 2028.
