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Assembleia da República Ratifies the 2023 Lisbon Acordo on School Equivalence Between Portugal and Brazil — Ensino Fundamental and Médio Get Automatic Recognition, the Embassy Drops Its 16,000 Yearly Validations, and Higher Education Stays Outside Scope

Assembleia da República Ratifies the 2023 Lisbon Acordo on School Equivalence Between Portugal and Brazil — Ensino Fundamental and Médio Get Automatic Recognition, the Embassy Drops Its 16,000 Yearly Validations, and Higher Education Stays Outside Scope

The Assembleia da República closed the third anniversary of the Cimeira Luso-Brasileira on Friday by voting through the Acordo Complementar ao Tratado de Amizade, Cooperação e Consulta entre Portugal e Brasil, the 22 April 2023 Lisbon protocol that...
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Solar Self-Consumption (Autoconsumo) in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to UPAC Tiers, the DGEG Communication, the ERSE Surplus-Injection Rules and What Your Roof Actually Earns

Solar Self-Consumption (Autoconsumo) in Portugal in 2026 — A Practical Guide to UPAC Tiers, the DGEG Communication, the ERSE Surplus-Injection Rules and What Your Roof Actually Earns

Portugal closed 2024 with 237,000 self-consumers and 1.8 GW of installed UPAC capacity. This 2026 guide walks foreign residents through the four DGEG/ERSE capacity tiers, the SERUP communication, surplus-injection rules to the CUR, and the payback maths on a typical Portuguese roof.
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Infraestruturas de Portugal Hands Mota-Engil the €113.5 Million Contumil-Ermesinde Quadruplication on the Linha do Minho — 24% Below the Base Price, Q1 2030 Completion, and the First Concrete Step Toward the Porto-Vigo High-Speed Link

Infraestruturas de Portugal Hands Mota-Engil the €113.5 Million Contumil-Ermesinde Quadruplication on the Linha do Minho — 24% Below the Base Price, Q1 2030 Completion, and the First Concrete Step Toward the Porto-Vigo High-Speed Link

IP awarded Mota-Engil the €113.5M Contumil-Ermesinde quadruplication on the Linha do Minho on 8 May 2026 — 24% below the €150M base price, Q1 2030 completion, ~€40M Portugal 2030 EU cofinancing inside a €226M envelope. First concrete piece of the Porto-Vigo high-speed link.
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Lisbon rooftops with the 25 de Abril bridge across the Tagus in the distance

Caixa Geral de Depósitos Q1 2026 Net Profit Edges 1% to €397 Million — Paulo Macedo Books a €1.25 Billion Dividend, the Largest in Portuguese Banking History, and Sets 3 June as the Binding-Bid Deadline for the Brazilian Subsidiary

CGD Q1 2026 net profit was €397 million (+1%). The headline event is the €1.25 billion dividend to the Treasury — the largest from any Portuguese bank in history. Macedo set 3 June as the binding-bid deadline for the Brazilian subsidiary (Nubank, Garantia, MD Capital, Sputnik in the room).
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Portugal's Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale Opens With Alexandre Estrela's RedSkyFalls — A Real-Time Installation Wired to Global Seismic Activity Above Magnitude 4.5, in a Biennale Reshaped by the Russia-Israel Boycott

Portugal's Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale Opens With Alexandre Estrela's RedSkyFalls — A Real-Time Installation Wired to Global Seismic Activity Above Magnitude 4.5, in a Biennale Reshaped by the Russia-Israel Boycott

Portugal's pavilion at the 61st Venice Art Biennale opened on Friday with Alexandre Estrela's RedSkyFalls — an installation at Palazzo Fondaco Marcello wired to global seismic activity above magnitude 4.5. The Biennale opens to the public on Saturday under a Russia-Israel boycott controversy.
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Portugal's 2025–2026 Olive Oil Campaign Closes at 160,000 Tonnes — Production Has Quintupled in 26 Years and Is Worth €700 Million as CEPAAL Pushes a Portuguese Brand to Reclaim the Margin That Currently Flows to Spanish and Italian Bottlers

Portugal's 2025–2026 Olive Oil Campaign Closes at 160,000 Tonnes — Production Has Quintupled in 26 Years and Is Worth €700 Million as CEPAAL Pushes a Portuguese Brand to Reclaim the Margin That Currently Flows to Spanish and Italian Bottlers

Portugal closed the 2025–2026 olive oil campaign at 160,000 tonnes — five times the production at the start of the century — worth €700 million at current bulk prices. CEPAAL is pushing a Portuguese brand to capture the margin currently flowing to Spanish and Italian bottlers.
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