A nest at Areias de Rabo de Peixe confirmed Vespa velutina on São Miguel in January 2025. An IUCN grant funded by the European Union now pays for a year of mapping, nest destruction and training from 1 September. On the mainland the same insect has spread for fifteen years.
Decreto-Lei 97/2026 offers landlords a full IRS and IRC exemption on accessible rents. It also gave the government 30 days to publish the portaria fixing the maximum rent by typology. That deadline was 19 June, and neither the order nor the platform exists.
Nuno Cardoso became mayor in 1999 by substitution, ran the European Capital of Culture year and the metro construction, and was dropped by his party before he could face a ballot. He came back as an independent twice, taking 1 percent in 2013 and 1.9 percent last October.
The firing range that becomes the Aeroporto Luis de Camoes lies mostly inside Benavente, not Alcochete. The council has zoned a business park there, projects more than 100 million euros of turnover per mandate, and set a clause returning the land to farmland if nothing is built by 2028.
The interim order that stopped the diggers has held since October. Hearings open on Wednesday at the Sintra administrative court, with three more sittings booked. Parliament recommended protecting this land in June 2021, and successive governments left the recommendation on the shelf.
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Eurostat's third estimate of the second quarter puts Portuguese employment up 1.0 percent on the quarter, the best in the EU, and 2.2 percent on the year, third behind Malta and Spain. The catch is that the workforce grew faster than output did.
