Banco de Portugal Banco de Portugal Authorises Just Five Loan-Management Firms Five Months Into the Lei 70/2024 Regime — 321 Crédito's €28 Million Projeto Boavista 3 Sets the First Secondary-NPL Test 21 May 2026
Politics PS and PSD Block the Chega Push to Declassify FP-25 and Post-25 April Far-Right Archives — Cultural-War Framing Replaces the Security-Risk Argument Inside the Comissão 21 May 2026
Immigration Forty Immigrants Lodge AIMA Complaints Over Forged Residency Authorisations — Colombian Civil-Construction Workers Carry the Bulk of the 'Agenciador' Scheme 21 May 2026
TAP SPAC President Hélder Santinhos Frames Lufthansa as the Labour-Stability Risk in TAP's 49.9% Privatisation — Air France-KLM Remains the Preferred Buyer for the Pilots' Union 21 May 2026
sociedade CPCJ Counts 54 Early-or-Forced Marriages in the 2025 Cycle — The First Year the Caseload Carries Its Own Typology After the March 2025 Sub-18 Wedding Ban 21 May 2026
Mota-Engil Muddy Waters Drags Mota-Engil Into a Texas Civil-Defamation Action Over Carlos Mota Santos's December 2024 Expresso Interview — Group Frames the 19 December 2025 Filing as Carrying 'Little Relevance' to Operations 21 May 2026
Housing Decreto-Lei 97/2026 Pins a 10% IMT Penalty on IVA-6% Homebuyers Who Vacate the Primary Residence Inside 12 Months — Pacote Fiscal Habitação Bolts the Affordable-Housing Loophole as Diário da República Publishes Tuesday 20 May 21 May 2026
Business Medway Steps Up the Palmela Rail-Freight Line to Three Trains a Week for Volkswagen Autoeuropa — Leixões and Santander Anchor the Modal-Shift Pipeline as Carlos Vasconcelos Reads the Railway Option 'Gaining Strength' 20 May 2026
Business Sonae Posts a +11% Net Income Jump in Q1 2026 as Continente Revenue Crosses €1.7 Billion Through March — Sierra's Crédito Agrícola Vehicle Picks Up 40% of ArrábidaShopping and GaiaShopping 20 May 2026
Demographics INE Logs 7,195 Live Births in March 2026 — +2.7% Year-On-Year, Natural Balance Eases to -3,360 and Marriages Climb 6.5% to 2,077 While the April 2026 Death Count Drops to 9,289 in the Vital-Statistics Destaque 20 May 2026
Economy Wednesday's Three-Line Household-Balance-Sheet Tape — INE's 20-Year Poverty Floor at 15.4%, Banco de Portugal's 45% DSTI Ceiling and the €480 Million IFRRU 2030 Housing Facility All Hit the Same Day 20 May 2026
