Maria da Graça Carvalho told journalists in Brussels that festivals, the hospitality trade, too few machines and people rummaging bins for the 10-cent refund are all being worked on case by case. Dedicated containers beside existing bins are under study.
Quercus says the Tortosendo expansion would fell about 1,400 protected cork oaks, dozens of them centuries old, days before the consultation closes on 4 September. Page 368 of the council's report both records cork oak forest and denies finding any.
Maria da Graça Carvalho told journalists in Brussels that the European Commission accepted the State's 13.7 percent return to REN on security and sovereignty grounds. The purchase still needs the Court of Auditors and an ERSE opinion.
DGERT's July report puts notified procedures up about 13 percent to 375, the highest January to July count since 2020. Workers actually dismissed fell 11.4 percent to 4,055. Micro and small firms filed 279 of the 375; Lisbon and the Tagus Valley 221.
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The national public services federation, STAL and the Lisbon municipal workers' union have called a joint stoppage for Friday 2 October, plus an 11am demonstration in Lisbon, demanding pay talks open now rather than in 2027.
Press attache Aleksei Chekmarev told CNN Portugal that Moscow places Portugal among Europe's most hostile states, citing Lisbon's support for EU sanctions and for Kyiv, days after a drone exploded 300 metres from the Portuguese embassy in Kyiv.
