Social trends, demographics, and community issues in modern Portugal.
All three face attempted homicide, and investigators have not established which of them fired. One was detained the day after the shooting in August and released on twice-weekly reporting.
Sixty beds, thirty-eight jobs and a hundred and fifty people waiting. What is missing is the Social Security agreement that would fund 48 of the places, and without it the doors stay shut.
Francisco Assis loses his immunity so an Almada judge can open a pretrial investigation into a March 2022 press release he issued as president of the Economic and Social Council. The Public Prosecutor's Office had closed the case as free expression.
A CCDR-N bulletin published on Tuesday puts northern Portugal's population at 3,790,554 in 2025, up 5.2 percent since 2021 after a decade of decline. Net migration of 235,170 did the work; the natural balance stayed 48,000 in the red.
The complaint came from a coordinator inside the force with thirty years of service. Two allegations: evidence that no intercepts were made, and an intercept ordered after prosecutors had forbidden it.
Public bodies were supposed to report every appointment since 1995 and largely did not. Without that list the court could count what arrived, but never work out what was missing.
Representation still puts the country in the world's top 20. Rule of Law dropped twelve places, Participation twenty, and freedom of expression recorded one of the ten steepest five-year falls anywhere.
