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ERSE's second-quarter commodities bulletin puts Portuguese wholesale electricity at €55.6 a megawatt hour, Brent at a record 145 dollars on 7 April, and the renewable share of consumption down from 77 to 69 percent.
Caldas da Rainha disclosed on Thursday that pseudomonas was found in the water plant of the Hospital Termal Rainha D. Leonor, billed as the oldest working thermal hospital in the world. Treatments have been suspended for a week, with no reopening date.
The Defence Ministry confirms a €133 million order for 75 Urovesa VAMTACs for the Navy's fuzileiros, financed by the EU's SAFE instrument, with a Portugal to Spain memorandum signed in Porto and deliveries running from 2027 to 2029.
The Sindicato dos Médicos da Zona Sul says anaesthesiology teams at the ULS São José have been cut below Ordem dos Médicos levels, that Santa Marta's emergency is down to one anaesthetist, and that Dona Estefânia has had to reorganise paediatric surgical emergencies.
Bank of Portugal figures for July put household deposits at a record €206.7 billion, yet the term-deposit stock slipped €21.5 million to €116.4 billion, its first fall since August 2025. Savings certificates took in €767.7 million, the most in three years.
Portaria n.º 394/2026/1 puts a ceiling on the community work the new single social payment can require: 15 hours a week, plus five more for 18 to 25 year olds out of work and study, and five more for everyone from the third renewal. Doing 20 hours earns a €13.43 voucher.
