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The Directorate-General for Local Authorities (DGAL) has published on its official website the provisional results of the indirect elections for the presidents and vice-presidents of the five Commissions for Coordination and Regional Development (CCDRs) that took place on Monday. More than 10,700 local councillors from 278 municipalities, who make up the electoral colleges, went to the polls to choose among six ...

The idea of dismissing toxic civil servants could be a tonic of hope for public administration.

The Government will invest €25 million to support the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in the Public Administration, according to information released today by the Ministry for State Reform.

The Ministry says it is “not about training programmers”, but about “providing useful tools to managers, technicians and assistants, adapted to different roles”.

The Port of Leixões simulator served as a pretext for Henrique Gouveia e Melo to test dangerous manoeuvres and adverse conditions before attempting to berth at Belém.
The pilot project involves 13 public administration services over six months and aims to assess the impact of reduced working hours on the productivity and well-being of teams and employees.

The Government of the Azores today launched a pilot project for a four-day working week in the public administration, which will involve 400 workers from 13 services and examine the consequences of reducing weekly working hours to 32. “This pilot project, in terms of labour flexibility in the regional public administration of the Azores, which we call a four-day ...”

As we near 2025, we witnessed, at the start of the century, subtle reforms of public administration, among them the creation of Simplex in 2007 (at the time when, for example, Citius was created), which resonated in the Plan for the Reduction and Improvement of Central Administration (2011–2013). Since then, successive governments have ...
