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Montenegro Walks 400 New PSP Agents Into the Lisbon and Porto Metropolitan Commands Through End-2026 — Carlos Moedas and Pedro Duarte Leave São Bento With 200 Agents Each, Plus a 500-Officer Esquadra Reorganisation in Porto, Lisboa and Setúbal

Montenegro Walks 400 New PSP Agents Into the Lisbon and Porto Metropolitan Commands Through End-2026 — Carlos Moedas and Pedro Duarte Leave São Bento With 200 Agents Each, Plus a 500-Officer Esquadra Reorganisation in Porto, Lisboa and Setúbal

Prime Minister Luís Montenegro walked out of an extraordinarily-scheduled meeting at São Bento on Monday 12 May 2026 with the Câmaras of Lisbon and Porto and announced that 400 new agents of the Polícia de Segurança Pública will be assigned to the...
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Banco de Portugal's 2025 Behavioural Supervision Report Walks Banks Into €8.91 Million of Customer Refunds — €8.24 Million in Indevidas Commissions, 3,298 Specific Determinations and 52 Contraordenação Proposals Across the Inspection Tape

Banco de Portugal's 2025 Behavioural Supervision Report Walks Banks Into €8.91 Million of Customer Refunds — €8.24 Million in Indevidas Commissions, 3,298 Specific Determinations and 52 Contraordenação Proposals Across the Inspection Tape

Banco de Portugal's 2025 Behavioural Supervision Report — the annual file from Avenida Almirante Reis that aggregates every consumer-protection inspection, mystery-shopper visit and complaint-driven enforcement action the supervisor ran against the...
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Conselho Nacional de Educação Walks the Government's Higher-Education Access Rewind Into a 'Consequências Gravosas' Parecer — CNE Unanimously Asks Fernando Alexandre to Repensar the One-Exam-Minimum Proposal That Reverses the 2023 Two-Exam Rule

Conselho Nacional de Educação Walks the Government's Higher-Education Access Rewind Into a 'Consequências Gravosas' Parecer — CNE Unanimously Asks Fernando Alexandre to Repensar the One-Exam-Minimum Proposal That Reverses the 2023 Two-Exam Rule

The Conselho Nacional de Educação — the Republic's consultative body on every diploma the Ministry of Education and Higher Education tries to move through the system — has dropped a unanimous parecer onto the desk of Minister Fernando Alexandre...
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PS Aligns With PSD to Kill Chega's Constitutional Revision Push on Tuesday 12 May — Socialist Secretariado Nacional Says the Portuguese 'Do Not Ask for a Constitutional Revision' Inside the 30-Day Counter-Project Window

PS Aligns With PSD to Kill Chega's Constitutional Revision Push on Tuesday 12 May — Socialist Secretariado Nacional Says the Portuguese 'Do Not Ask for a Constitutional Revision' Inside the 30-Day Counter-Project Window

Tuesday 12 May 2026: the PS Secretariado Nacional formally rules out tabling a constitutional revision project. PSD's António Rodrigues told TSF the party will block Chega's proposals. Without either, the 154-vote two-thirds threshold under Article 286 is mathematically out of reach.
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Getting an SNS Número de Utente in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the Registo Nacional de Utentes, the Médico de Família Assignment, the Centro de Saúde Walk and the Foreign-Resident Documentary Chain Under Lei 95/2019 and Decreto-Lei 113/2011

Getting an SNS Número de Utente in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the Registo Nacional de Utentes, the Médico de Família Assignment, the Centro de Saúde Walk and the Foreign-Resident Documentary Chain Under Lei 95/2019 and Decreto-Lei 113/2011

Getting an SNS Número de Utente in 2026 — legal frame under Lei 95/2019 and Decreto-Lei 113/2011, documentary chain (Título de Residência, NIF, NISS, Atestado da Junta), Registo Nacional de Utentes inscription, Médico de Família assignment, SNS24 / Vacinas / Portal do Cidadão digital rail.
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Banco de Portugal Walks the Folheto de Comissões Out of Its Two-Decade-Old Labyrinth — Supervisor Opens a Multi-Year Reformulation of Bank Fee Disclosures and the Comparador de Comissões Targeting Cross-Bank Comparability Through 2028

Banco de Portugal Walks the Folheto de Comissões Out of Its Two-Decade-Old Labyrinth — Supervisor Opens a Multi-Year Reformulation of Bank Fee Disclosures and the Comparador de Comissões Targeting Cross-Bank Comparability Through 2028

Tuesday 12 May: Banco de Portugal opens a multi-year reformulation of the Folheto de Comissões — two-decade-old rules under Aviso 8/2009 produced a labyrinth of dozens-of-page documents. Supervisor targets simpler templates, cross-bank comparability and Comparador-de-Comissões expansion by 2028.
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