MP asks Supremo Tribunal to merge Salgado's Operação Marquês 8-year and Caso EDP 6yr3m sentences into a 10-11 year cúmulo jurídico and suspend execution under Article 50 on Alzheimer grounds. Reading on 2 June 2026.
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The Portuguese Finance Ministry has dropped the system of cativações automáticas — the blanket spending freezes that automatically blocked execution above pre-set ceilings inside public administration — and replaced it with a centralised budgetary...
Portugal has signed a joint letter with 15 other European Union member states — the Amigos da Coesão coalition — pressing the European Commission for a slower repayment schedule on the Next Generation EU borrowing programme and for a new round of...
President António José Seguro promulgated on Tuesday 26 May 2026 the Assembleia da República decree that overhauls Portugal's Subsídio Social de Mobilidade (SSM) — the airfare subsidy scheme that underwrites travel between the mainland and the...
Portuguese almond exports cross €115.45 million in 2025 on a 12% volume lift to 41,800 tonnes. Shelled almonds overtake in-shell value for the first time at 65% of the export tape; sector targets the fourth global producer slot behind the US, Spain and Australia within five years.
PJ mobilises dozens of searches and over a dozen detention warrants at Águas de Gaia on Tuesday 26 May 2026. DIAP do Porto inquiry targets active and passive corruption, abuse of power and tax fraud on public-contract awards — second phase after the September 2025 Lemos Rodrigues indictment.
