Justice Ministério Público Charges Thirty-One Including a DGACCP Consular Officer Over a €21 Million Fraudulent-Legalisation Scheme — Seven Held in Pre-Trial Detention as PJ-UNCT Files Money-Laundering and Active-Corruption Counts 23 May 2026
Culture Festas de Lisboa 2026 Run From 29 May to 28 June Under the 'Somos Lisboa, Somos Europa' Banner — Forty-Plus Initiatives, the Grand March on the Night of 12 June and the Sixteen Casamentos de Santo António Frame the Programme 23 May 2026
Finance Certificados de Aforro Pull €537.6 Million in April 2026 — Twelve-Month High Drives Outstanding Stock to a Record €41.7 Billion as the Series F Per-Saver Ceiling Stepped Up From €100,000 to €250,000 on 24 April 23 May 2026
Tourism Algarve Hoteliers Petition the Government to Pause the EES at Faro Airport for the Summer Peak — Pinto Luz Concedes the Possibility After Long Lisbon Queues, UK Market Carries Roughly Half of Faro Traffic 23 May 2026
Politics PSD Tables a Helmet-and-Reflector Mandate for E-Scooters and E-Bikes With €30 to €150 Fines — Projeto-Lei Filed 22 May Leans on a GNR Seven-Year File of 1,900 Accidents, 10 Deaths and 88 Serious Injuries 23 May 2026
Road Safety GNR Logs Roughly 2,000 Child Road Casualties Through 2025 — Vehicle-Passenger File Hits 1,271 and Bicycle Victims Jump 25% to 406 as the First Four Months of 2026 Already Carry 529 23 May 2026
Finance José Azevedo Pereira Steps Into the Banco Montepio CEO Seat on Friday 22 May After Pedro Leitão's Six-Year Run — Mutualista Pushes the Opening Mandate Toward Higher Dividend Payouts 23 May 2026
Economy Finance Ministry Boosts the ISP Discount to €63.56/1000 L on Diesel and €60.40/1000 L on Gasoline From Monday 26 May — Anarec Reads a 1.5-Cent Pump-Price Rise as the Trigger Behind the Friday 22 May Portaria 23 May 2026
INE INE Pegs 30.6% of Mainland Portugal as High or Very-High Rural-Fire-Hazard Land — 51,115 People Live Inside the Zones, Centro and Norte Both Cross 50% and Fire Brigades Carry Tighter Proximity to the Risk Than Hospitals 22 May 2026
Economy Moody's Reaffirms Portugal at A3 With Stable Outlook on Friday 22 May — 2026 Growth Penciled at 1.6% and Deficit at 0.4% as the Storm Cluster, Middle East Energy Shock and Political Fragmentation Tip the Risk Balance 22 May 2026
Energy Government Publishes a Decree-Law on Friday 22 May That Unsticks the Renewables Grid-Capacity Queue Through 30 June 2027 — Promoters Gain a Sixty-Day Window to Split, Aggregate, Renounce, Exchange or Transfer Títulos de Reserva de Capacidade 22 May 2026
