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The Porto Brief — Week of 14 June 2026: Primavera Sound Closes Out at Parque da Cidade, the Leixões Swing Bridge Pauses for 90 Days From Monday, and the Aleixo Land Contract Slides for the Seventh Time

The Porto Brief — Week of 14 June 2026: Primavera Sound Closes Out at Parque da Cidade, the Leixões Swing Bridge Pauses for 90 Days From Monday, and the Aleixo Land Contract Slides for the Seventh Time

Primavera Sound wraps a record-bid edition at Parque da Cidade, Leixões loses its swing bridge for 90 days on Monday, the Aleixo land contract extends a seventh time, the Brisav RECAPE for the Porto-Gaia stretch hits public consultation, and São João is nine days out — under a yellow heat warning.
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Portugal Misses the 7 June Transposition Deadline on the EU Pay Transparency Directive 2023/970 — Ministério do Trabalho's 30 March Draft Sits Open as the Job-Ad Pay-Band Rule and Reversed Burden of Proof Bind Anyway

Portugal Misses the 7 June Transposition Deadline on the EU Pay Transparency Directive 2023/970 — Ministério do Trabalho's 30 March Draft Sits Open as the Job-Ad Pay-Band Rule and Reversed Burden of Proof Bind Anyway

Portugal sat out the 7 June 2026 transposition deadline on European Union Directive 2023/970 (the Pay Transparency Directive / Diretiva da Transparência Salarial) without publishing a Decreto-Lei in the Diário da República. The Ministério do...
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