Politics Lusa Journalists Call a 24-Hour Stoppage for Wednesday 20 May as the Assembleia Opens the Estatutos Debate — Three Unions Flag Editorial Independence, the RTP-Campus Move and the January 2025 Wage File 19 May 2026
Healthcare RON Clocks Five-Year Cancer Survival in Portugal at 66% for the 2019 Cohort — Women Sit 10 Points Above Men, Thyroid and Testicular Tumours Clear 90% and Madeira Trails the Mainland 19 May 2026
Social Security Portaria 225/2026 Pulls the Email and Postal Lanes for Pensioner Proof-of-Life Abroad From 1 May — Canada Joins Switzerland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Belgium, Cabo Verde and the UK as Segurança Social Direta Becomes the Single Submission Channel 19 May 2026
Insurance APS Reads Storm-Kristin Cluster Indemnifications at €1.3 Billion With €530 Million Already Paid Out — 71% of 205,000 Claims Closed, 60,000 Files Still Open and €85 Million Cleared in the Last Fortnight Alone 19 May 2026
Health DGS Tightens Imported-Case Detection After WHO Stamps the Congolese Bundibugyo Outbreak a PHEIC on 17 May — Lab Capacity Stepped Up, Traveller Guidance Refreshed, European Risk Held at 'Very Low' 19 May 2026
Politics Montenegro Files 'Trabalhar — Fazer Portugal Maior' Third Strategic Motion for the 43rd PSD Congress in Anadia on 20-21 June — Sole Candidate, Slogan Borrowed From Cavaco Silva, 'Não É Não' to Chega and No Bloco Central With PS 19 May 2026
Immigration Presidency Office Tells ECO the Gold-Visa Programme Was Never Designed to Grant Citizenship as 500-Plus Investors Pool a Collective Lawsuit Over the Five-to-Ten-Year Nationality-Law Stretch 19 May 2026
Business Corticeira Amorim Cuts a Further 212 Posts Across 2025 With Amorim Cork Solutions Carrying 126 of the Layoffs — Workforce Closes the Year at 4,637 Versus 4,999 in 2022 and Personnel Costs Drop €2.5 Million Despite Higher Average Pay 19 May 2026
Health Infarmed Reads SNS Medicine Spend at a Record €4.417 Billion in 2025 — Hospital Drugs Cross €2.5 Billion for the First Time as Oncology Adds €864.5 Million at +16% and Ambulatory Comparticipação Lifts to €1.894 Billion at +12.4% 19 May 2026
Economy DECO Cabaz Alimentar Eases to €260.41 in the Week of 6-13 May After a Record €261.89 — Spiral Pasta, Nile Perch and Canned Tuna Drive the Weekly Rise While the YTD Bill Sits €18.58 Above January 19 May 2026
Economy Brussels Greenlights the PRR Revision on 18 May and Castro Almeida Files Portugal's Ninth Payment Request — €516 Million of Projects Dropped, BRT Braga and Renewable-Energy Single Window the Marquee Losses 19 May 2026
