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Government Drafts a Sixth Lei dos Estrangeiros Amendment to Stand Up Centros de Triagem Ahead of the 12 June EU Deadline — Ministério da Presidência Pencils a Fresh Residence-Authorisation Tightening

Government Drafts a Sixth Lei dos Estrangeiros Amendment to Stand Up Centros de Triagem Ahead of the 12 June EU Deadline — Ministério da Presidência Pencils a Fresh Residence-Authorisation Tightening

Portugal's screening centres are physically ready inside existing airport detention infrastructure, but the legal framework for the EU Screening Regulation that enters into force on 12 June 2026 is not — pushing António Leitão Amaro into a sixth foreigners-law rewrite in two years.
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Finanças Reweights the ISP Combustível Discount With a +0.77-Cent Diesel Top-Up and a –0.02-Cent Gasolina Trim From 9 June — Pump-Week Extraordinary Rebate Holds at €51.45 and €41.97 per 1,000 Litres

Finanças Reweights the ISP Combustível Discount With a +0.77-Cent Diesel Top-Up and a –0.02-Cent Gasolina Trim From 9 June — Pump-Week Extraordinary Rebate Holds at €51.45 and €41.97 per 1,000 Litres

The Ministry of Finance retuned the extraordinary ISP rebate on 5 June: diesel picks up 0.765 cents against a four-cent forecast climb, gasoline gives back 0.021 cents — leaving cumulative discounts at €51.45 and €41.97 per 1,000 litres for the 9 June pump week.
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Autoridade da Concorrência Levies €13.35 Million on MEO, NOS, Vodafone and Accenture Over the Pay-TV Skippable-Ad Coordination Running From August 2019 to May 2025 — Altice Settles While NOS and Vodafone File Recursos

Autoridade da Concorrência Levies €13.35 Million on MEO, NOS, Vodafone and Accenture Over the Pay-TV Skippable-Ad Coordination Running From August 2019 to May 2025 — Altice Settles While NOS and Vodafone File Recursos

The AdC closed a six-year cartel file on 5 June with €13.35 million in coimas split across the three pay-TV operators and Accenture for coordinating a 30-second non-skippable advert before recorded programmes — Altice paid, NOS and Vodafone are heading to the Tribunal da Concorrência.
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