Social trends, demographics, and community issues in modern Portugal.
Fewer rural slaughterhouses, long distances and transport costs that wipe out the margin. The government's answer is a slaughterhouse that drives to the animals, licensed by the CCDR for its parking place.
Lusoponte is resurfacing the road deck between 22:00 and 06:00 every night until Friday. The bridge stays open, but on the first nights that leaves a single running lane in each direction.
Two meetings, two inspections and 36 pages. The oversight council says the services performed within the law, and repeats a warning it has been making for years about the legal vacuum around metadata.
Lei n.º 58/2026 takes effect on 23 September. The fine runs to 3,000 euros, forcing someone else to cover their face is a crime carrying up to two years, and the exceptions are wider than the headline suggests.
The Provedoria de Justiça opened its inquiry into transport accessibility in Lisbon and Porto precisely because so few people were complaining. At Oriente it counted five of fourteen platform lifts out of service, and in Lisbon a fifth of the bus fleet is not accessible.
The statistics institute's monthly registry count puts July at 4,691 marriages and 7,566 live births, and August at 9,021 deaths. Across seven months the gap between births and deaths is narrowing, and it is the death count doing most of the work.
Seven containers sailed from Lisbon and three from Leixoes, collected by Portuguese and Luso-Venezuelan diaspora associations. Thirteen local bodies took between 10 and 15 pallets each at the first handover.
