Healthcare IGAS Confirms Ex-SNS Director Gandra D'Almeida Breached Accumulation Rules at INEM and DE-SNS — 200k Euros at 50€/Hour, 70-Plus Weekly Hours, Payments Through His Own Company — No Sanction Because Military Status Sits Outside the LTFP 10 May 2026
Housing Portugal's Young-Buyer Housing Guarantee Walks Into Its December 2026 Cliff With 32,338 Contracts Signed and 905 Million Euros Drawn — Banco de Portugal Drafts a Macroprudential Brake While BCP and BPI Press for an Extension 10 May 2026
Caixa Geral de Depósitos Caixa Geral de Depósitos Closes Q1 2026 With €397 Million in Profit and 213 Fewer Workers — 24%-Plus Mortgage Share, NPLs at 1.38% and CET1 Above 21% as the State Bank Marks Its 150th Anniversary 10 May 2026
Immigration AIMA Reimposes the 10-Senha Daily Cap on Lawyers at the Porto Loja With a 12h–16h Window — Three Cases Per Advogado Per Day Against a 200,000-File Court Backlog, Less Than a Year After the National Cap Was Lifted by Protocol With the Ordem 10 May 2026
Economy Portugal's Twin EU-Funds Cliff Comes Into View — €14.9 Billion of the PRR Drawn at 61% Execution With 21 May Reprogramming Locked, August Targets Pending and Portugal 2030 Sitting Last in the EU Payment-Monitoring Tape at €4.06 Billion 10 May 2026
Politics Inside the Trabalho XXI Bill That Lands in Parliament This Week — The Banco de Horas Grupal Falls Out, the SME Reintegration Bar Goes Up, Outsourcing After Collective Dismissal Drops to Six Months and the Caducidade Path Gets Wider 10 May 2026
Banking Reading the Q1 2026 Big-Five Banking Tape Beyond the €1.279 Billion Headline — BCP +25.6% Carries the Margem Financeira Alone While Santander, BPI and Novobanco Print Compression and CGD Leans on International 10 May 2026
Grupo Mello Grupo José de Mello Now Carries More Than 50 Shareholders Eight Years After Tearing Up the Family Protocol — Sixth Generation Already at 80, Salvador de Mello CEO at 5.56%, and the €330M Ercros Takeover Lands as the Largest Print Since Brisa 10 May 2026
EDP EDP Renews Its São Paulo Distribution Concession for 30 Years and Books a 5-Billion-Real Investment Plan Through 2030 — Brasília Signing With Lula and Alexandre Silveira Locks Guarulhos, Alto Tietê, Vale do Paraíba and Litoral Norte Through 2058 10 May 2026
AdC AdC Opens an Article-41 In-Depth Investigation Into the Better Foods–Cerealis Milling Concentration — Nacional, Milaneza and Napolitana Would Land Inside Portugal's Largest Miller Alongside Ceres, Germen, Granel and Carneiro Campos 10 May 2026
Mercado do Bolhão Mercado do Bolhão's Knife Sharpener Joins Portugal's National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage — André Fernandes, 37, Becomes the First Amolador Inscribed Under the SIPCI Framework 10 May 2026
