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MAI Books €36 Million for SIRESP With 33 Working-Group Recommendations and an 18-Month Timeline — Internal Administration's Luís Neves Pitches Energy Autonomy and Redundancies After the April 2025 Blackout and the Storm Kristin Centro Outage

MAI Books €36 Million for SIRESP With 33 Working-Group Recommendations and an 18-Month Timeline — Internal Administration's Luís Neves Pitches Energy Autonomy and Redundancies After the April 2025 Blackout and the Storm Kristin Centro Outage

MAI booked roughly €36 million on Tuesday to strengthen SIRESP, Portugal's emergency-communications backbone, with 33 working-group recommendations and an 18-month implementation timeline aimed at the energy and redundancy gaps exposed by the April 2025 blackout and Storm Kristin's Centro outage.
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Portugal Recovers WOAH Avian-Flu-Free Country Status After 26-Foco H5N1 Window Closes — DGAV Confirms 4 May Reset on the December 2-26 2025 Outbreak Cycle, Bird Confinement Already Lifted in April

Portugal Recovers WOAH Avian-Flu-Free Country Status After 26-Foco H5N1 Window Closes — DGAV Confirms 4 May Reset on the December 2-26 2025 Outbreak Cycle, Bird Confinement Already Lifted in April

The Direção-Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária confirmed on 4 May 2026 that Portugal has recovered its status as a country free of highly pathogenic avian influenza, after the World Organisation for Animal Health validated the close-out of the 26-outbreak cycle that ran from 2 to 26 December 2025.
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Nscale Books €695 Million for a Second 200MW Sines Building With 66,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs for Microsoft — Late-2027 Deployment Builds on the 12,600 Blackwell Ultra Stack at Start Campus' 1.2GW Permitted Site

Nscale Books €695 Million for a Second 200MW Sines Building With 66,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs for Microsoft — Late-2027 Deployment Builds on the 12,600 Blackwell Ultra Stack at Start Campus' 1.2GW Permitted Site

Nscale committed €695 million on Tuesday to expand its Sines Data Campus collaboration with Microsoft and Start Campus — €230 million in shared infrastructure and €465 million for a second 200MW building hosting 66,000+ NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 GPUs from late 2027.
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Diesel Up 10 Cêntimos and Gasoline 95 Up 6.5 Cêntimos at the Pump From Monday — €1.993/L Gasolina and €2.055/L Gasóleo Simples on a Hormuz-Tracking Brent Tape, Portaria 204-B/2026 Adds 1.5 Cêntimos of ISP Discount on Diesel

Diesel Up 10 Cêntimos and Gasoline 95 Up 6.5 Cêntimos at the Pump From Monday — €1.993/L Gasolina and €2.055/L Gasóleo Simples on a Hormuz-Tracking Brent Tape, Portaria 204-B/2026 Adds 1.5 Cêntimos of ISP Discount on Diesel

Pump prices for 5-10 May lift gasolina 95 to a national average €1.993/L and gasóleo simples to €2.055/L. Portaria 204-B/2026 (effective 4 May) raises the diesel ISP discount to 7.54 cêntimos/L. Brent's $114→$126 Hormuz move is the driver.
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TAP Books the Ex-CEO's €5.9 Million Indemnisation Claim Into the 2025 Accounts as a Civil Contingency — Civil Contingency Bucket Up From €28.5M to €34M, Auditor Disclosure With No Provision Set

TAP Books the Ex-CEO's €5.9 Million Indemnisation Claim Into the 2025 Accounts as a Civil Contingency — Civil Contingency Bucket Up From €28.5M to €34M, Auditor Disclosure With No Provision Set

TAP's 2025 accounts list Christine Ourmières-Widener's €5.9 million wrongful-dismissal claim as a civil contingency — recognised in disclosure, with no provision booked. The civil contingency line rises from €28.5M (2024) to €34M (2025), explicitly attributed to the former chief executive's case.
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