The weekly outlook for 31 August to 6 September has the heat returning in two steps as an anticyclone builds over the Bay of Biscay. Maximums reach 30 to 40 degrees from midweek, with the coastal strip held to 25 to 30.
A requerimento asks for every euro paid to the airline or its group from 2015 to 2026, including the 1.885 million euro Visit Azores promotion contract signed in March 2025, months before Ryanair announced it was leaving.
The new call joins 35 million already approved, all of it from the state budget rather than European funds. Announced at the Bravura dam, where a 15 million euro fix is expected to save 19 million cubic metres of water a year.
Seven months after the storm, one council has cleared 30.1 percent of the national caseload: 69.7 million euros requested, 39.5 million validated, 37.3 million paid, 2,731 refused. Analysis is finished; 310 approved files are still waiting for money.
The Ministry decided the 2017 to 2018 evaluation points should not have counted towards later progressions. Strip them out and some PREVPAP psychologists drop a pay step and owe the difference back. The Ordem wants the letters stopped before term starts.
The IGEC report the Education Ministry ordered has landed: 69 schools sent re-mark requests in late, 29 were late with the papers, and no deliberate act was found. The Jury counted 21,021 re-mark requests in the first phase alone.
APICCAPS reports a soft first half against a global slowdown: Italy down 4.3 percent, Spain 7.3, China 10.9, Brazil 15.7. Portugal holds an average export price of $28.25 a pair, second only to Italy, while leather falls from 69 to 58 percent of what it ships.
