The second phase of the national access contest placed 292 more students than in 2025, but Bragança alone was left with 885 empty places. Enrolment runs from 1 to 3 October.
Who can buy Portuguese state savings certificates, how to open an account, the rate, the tax, cashing out early, and how heirs claim them.
The Court of Auditors' first look at the IFICI tax regime finds most users are foreign managers and IT specialists in Lisbon, and flags four ways it could be abused.
The court could not certify the 2025 accounts, which still lack consolidated statements. It makes 57 recommendations and flags pensions, tax debt and EU funds.
An order published on Tuesday raises the fee paid to families who take older or disabled adults into their homes, for 2025 and 2026 at once. The fee is up 9.8 percent on 2024, and the 1991 law says it should be updated every year.
Assisted reproduction accounted for 4.9 percent of births in 2024, the national council says, 20 years after the law that governs it. Public centres carry out few donor treatments, and about 1,000 IVF cycles a year are for people living abroad.
Eurostat's 2024 figures put Portugal fourth in the EU for food waste, with 105 kg per person thrown away at home. An EU target for 2030 would mean cutting the retail, restaurant and household total by about 45 kg per person.
