Sindicato dos Jornalistas, SITESE and SITE CSRA called a 24-hour strike for 20 May timed to the parliamentary debate on Lusa's statute revision, with a concentration planned at São Bento.
CIVISA raised the Faial-Pico channel volcanic alert from V0 to V1 at 12:06 on Saturday 16 May 2026 as low-magnitude seismicity returned to the Madalena-Lagido submarine line. The watch holds for eight days; the Cachorro Submarine Volcanic System is the structure under observation.
Saturday 16 May Ministry of Health note to Lusa confirms specialists who left the SNS before the new diploma enters into force serve a one-year tarefeiro lock-out, not two — saving more than 2,000 doctors from a retroactive ban as the 31 December 2026 transitional window runs.
Manuel Jorge Valamatos warns 66 rural fires year-to-date make 2026 Médio Tejo's third-worst start since 2016. Storm-felled trees still blocking forest paths in Ourém, Sardoal, Abrantes and Ferreira do Zêzere threaten the 90-minute ataque inicial window.
Zero warns Portugal's 2024 emissions inventory cut just 3% to 51.5 Mt CO₂-eq — well below the pace needed for the PNEC 55% target by 2030. Transport carries 35.2% of the total, fuel use ran 2.5% higher in Q1 2026, and the PNCPA 2030 is still in public consultation seven years past the EU deadline.
Saturday's PSI remuneration-report analysis puts CEO pay at the 15 largest Lisbon-listed companies at 53× the average worker salary. Pedro Soares dos Santos tops the table at €5M gross — equivalent to 223 annual median wages — as the combined executive pool clears €23 million.
Montenegro hands Moedas 200 PSP agents as the 30-agent esquadra-closure threshold lands. The Câmara files its juridical defence on Karl Lagerfeld Residencies. Sócrates v. State opens at the Tribunal Administrativo. Idealista reads Lisbon stock down 13%.
