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Portuguese Family-Controlled Groups Walk Away With €653 Million From the 2026 Cotada Dividend Cycle — Soares dos Santos Leads, Azevedo and Amorim Take the Next Two Steps of the Podium and Queiroz Pereira Drops Out as Navigator's Cheque Halves

Portuguese Family-Controlled Groups Walk Away With €653 Million From the 2026 Cotada Dividend Cycle — Soares dos Santos Leads, Azevedo and Amorim Take the Next Two Steps of the Podium and Queiroz Pereira Drops Out as Navigator's Cheque Halves

The 2026 dividend cycle of the Portuguese cotadas — the listed companies that anchor the PSI index — has now closed enough of its calendar to allow the family-controlled-group rankings to be drawn. Jornal de Negócios's accounting puts the headline...
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Nurses Walk Out on the International Day of the Nurse — SEP Calls a National Strike Across Public, Private and Social Sectors for Tuesday 12 May 2026 as the Ordem dos Enfermeiros Reads a 14,000-Position Shortfall and a 40% New-Graduate Emigration Rate

Nurses Walk Out on the International Day of the Nurse — SEP Calls a National Strike Across Public, Private and Social Sectors for Tuesday 12 May 2026 as the Ordem dos Enfermeiros Reads a 14,000-Position Shortfall and a 40% New-Graduate Emigration Rate

Nurses across Portugal walk into a one-day national strike on Tuesday 12 May 2026 — the International Day of the Nurse — at the call of the Sindicato dos Enfermeiros Portugueses (SEP). The strike covers the public Serviço Nacional de Saúde, the...
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Klépierre Walks the Aqua Portimão Joint-Venture Buyout Across the 7 May Trading Update — Generali Immobiliare's 50% Stake Lands With the French Mall Operator for €59 Million, and the Western-Algarve Anchor Moves to Full Klépierre Ownership

Klépierre Walks the Aqua Portimão Joint-Venture Buyout Across the 7 May Trading Update — Generali Immobiliare's 50% Stake Lands With the French Mall Operator for €59 Million, and the Western-Algarve Anchor Moves to Full Klépierre Ownership

The French shopping-centre operator Klépierre has confirmed that on 16 April 2026 it acquired the remaining 50% stake in Aqua Portimão — the dominant retail anchor of the western Algarve — from joint-venture partner Generali Immobiliare for a total...
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Segurança Social Direta Locks Two-Factor Authentication Into Mandatory Operation on Tuesday 12 May 2026 — NISS-and-Password Logins Now Require an SMS or Email Code, and the Username Migrates From NISS to the Registered Email

Segurança Social Direta Locks Two-Factor Authentication Into Mandatory Operation on Tuesday 12 May 2026 — NISS-and-Password Logins Now Require an SMS or Email Code, and the Username Migrates From NISS to the Registered Email

The Portuguese Social Security portal — Segurança Social Direta, the single online front-door for almost every benefit, contribution and worker-employer transaction that runs through the Instituto da Segurança Social — switches its authentication...
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Husqvarna Group Walks the Rio de Mouro Sintra Factory Into Its End-of-2026 Closure Window — Stone Diamond Tools Exit Cuts SEK 250 Million of Annual Sales Across Portugal, Belgium and Greece in Glen Instone's Portfolio Cut

Husqvarna Group Walks the Rio de Mouro Sintra Factory Into Its End-of-2026 Closure Window — Stone Diamond Tools Exit Cuts SEK 250 Million of Annual Sales Across Portugal, Belgium and Greece in Glen Instone's Portfolio Cut

The Swedish power-tools group Husqvarna has confirmed that its stone-diamond-tools manufacturing operations in Rio de Mouro, Sintra — alongside companion sites in Belgium and Greece — walk into a closure window that completes by the end of 2026. The...
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