The Autoridade de Seguranca Alimentar e Economica took 20,226 litres of bottled red, white and rose off a producer-warehouser in Gouveia this week. EU law makes an indication of provenance compulsory. In July the same Centre brigade seized 20,923 litres in Viseu, Trancoso and Oliveira do Bairro.
Elena Duran started 55+ in five Greater Lisbon parishes in 2018. It now runs in two metropolitan areas, in Aveiro and across the Algarve, has logged more than 60,300 hours of work, and in Leiria and the Algarve councils pay for clients who cannot.
The council confirmed in July that Luis Neves had filed no licensing application at all. Asked this week what it sent the Ministerio Publico, it had nothing to add. The censure motion over his position is debated on Tuesday, brought forward by agreement.
Lei Organica 1/2026 gave the government 90 days to define the knowledge test now required for naturalisation. That ran out on 16 August with nothing published. Article 6 fixes the subject matter; the format, the pass mark and the venue remain unwritten.
Your weekly roundup from the capital: Carris settles what replaces the Elevador da Glória and when, ZERO counts Lisbon's airport past its night-flight ceiling in 33 weeks of 35, FlixBus still cannot sell a ticket from Sete Rios, and every team chief at Dona Estefânia's children's emergency resigns.
Good morning. Here is your Saturday briefing for 5 September 2026: the day's essential Portugal stories for residents, expats and anyone keeping an eye on the country, running from the
Last year's definitive intake was 2,231. The vice-rector calls the internationalisation almost unstoppable, points to a Macau legal code drafted at Coimbra and a Cabo Verde medical pipeline, and regrets that African students cannot be given reserved places.
