The Integrar para a Construção programme pays a grant for four months of training and a work placement in trades from plumbing to plasterboard. Its second intake, planned for September, still has no date.
Seven people and six companies are accused of 44 counts of subsidy fraud and one of money laundering, over rural development grants paid by IFAP between 2011 and 2015 for projects from Grândola to Ponte de Sor.
The organiser, the ACP, says the WRC promoter reshuffled the calendar at the last minute and dropped the May round. It hopes to return in 2028; tourism bodies in the north and centre want to know what went wrong.
Only 13 percent of Portuguese lower secondary teachers are satisfied with their salary, the OECD finds, and 38 percent of secondary teachers are 55 or older. Three in four of the empty timetables are in the Lisbon region.
September's climb in Euribor rates feeds into every variable-rate loan reviewed in October. Borrowers on the 12-month index are hit hardest, with a rise of about 14 percent on a 150,000 euro mortgage.
How the national access contest for public universities works: who can apply, the exams, your six choices, the three phases, and enrolling on time.
A Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation survey finds 70 percent of Portuguese city dwellers satisfied, against 86 percent in EU cities. Housing and health top residents' priorities.
