The Super Bock Group and the union Sintab have signed a five-year deal phasing the drinks maker's staff down to a 35-hour week and raising pay 2.3%, with a EUR75 minimum backdated to January - a rare private-sector move to the shorter week.
Mario Campos, a systems engineer who has spent a decade inside the tax office, became director-general of Portugal's Tax and Customs Authority on 1 August, ending Helena Borges's eleven-year tenure and making digital transformation and the fight against evasion his priorities.
A new Quality Barometer for the Lisbon Region from Nova IMS and the IPQ finds residents who are richer and better-educated than the national average yet mark their region down on cleanliness, parking, noise, security and tourism — while rating its public transport highly.
Almada has extended its formal water-supply alert to 31 August, carrying July's restrictions across the peak of summer: overnight cut-offs between 10pm and 6am, a ban on watering gardens and washing pavements, and reserves at 78% as consumption runs near double the national average.
Azambuja's council issued an unfavourable opinion on granting PIN (Project of National Interest) status to Neoen's EUR2 billion Azambuja DC data centre, citing missing environmental studies and infrastructure strain. The label is not a building permit, but losing local backing lengthens the road for
Portugal's central-State accounts ran a EUR212.6 million deficit through June on a public-accounting basis, reversing a EUR2.23 billion surplus a year earlier. A EUR987.5 million CGD dividend cushioned the blow as the Treasury cleared EUR1.37 billion in overdue SNS supplier bills and spent EUR451.3
The Euribor turned higher in July, and for borrowers whose contracts revise in August it feeds straight through to the bill. On a EUR150,000, 30-year loan the twelve-month-indexed instalment climbs to EUR703.64, about EUR64.83 more than a year ago. The same move flatters savers, pushing the Certific
