The third section of the Lisbon to Porto high-speed line could go out as two contracts instead of one, Jornal de Negócios reports. IP's own timetable puts the tender in the second half of 2026 and completion in 2033.
Social Security's own figures, published with the 2027 budget, show women's average old-age pension 42 percent below men's in 2025, against 43 percent in 2015. For new pensions the gap fell from 41 to 34 percent.
A Bank of Portugal study of about 300 councils from 2017 to 2024 finds extra demand feeds into prices almost twice as much as rents, hits hardest where building is slow, and concludes affordability cannot be fixed by demand-side policies alone.
Cancer patients on sick leave get 55 to 75 percent of their pay. A Forvis Mazars study for the Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro puts the net cost of paying them 100 percent at about 14 million euros, or 1.4 percent of sickness benefit spending.
Satisfaction among USF coordinators fell from 31.9 to 26 percent, USF-AN's annual survey finds. 85.7 percent of units are owed incentives, and 91.1 percent had three or more IT outages in a year, with 98.7 percent saying care suffered.
PSD and CDS-PP would drop undocumented migrants from the list of SNS beneficiaries; Chega would also make non-EU visitors and pending asylum seekers pay. Emergency care would still be given first. Legal residents keep their access under every bill.
A Council of Ministers resolution pushes spending on the future headquarters of Museus e Monumentos de Portugal to 2030, citing a building in worse shape than first diagnosed. The design competition for the main works only got under way this year.
