Caixa Geral de Depósitos closed the first quarter of 2026 with a consolidated net profit of €397 million, up 1% on the same period in 2025, and a Portuguese headcount that was
The Agência para a Integração, Migrações e Asilo has quietly reimposed the ten-senha daily cap on lawyers at its Porto loja, with access squeezed into a four-hour 12h–16h window. Público's Vicente Nunes reads the new rule on the ground on Saturday...
Two EU-funds files into a hard summer. PRR at €14.9 billion drawn and 61% execution with deadlines stacked 31 May to 31 December. Portugal 2030 last in EU payment-monitoring at €4.06 billion of €22.6 billion. The combined arc decides Portugal's 2026-27 public-investment cycle.
The labour-reform bill walks into the Assembleia this week with the banco de horas grupal repealed, fixed-term grounds widened, the SME reintegration bar lifted, post-dismissal outsourcing halved to six months, and the caducidade path widened. CGTP general strike locked for 3 June.
The aggregate Q1 2026 print is +4.9% on combined net profit. The story underneath it is one bank carrying the margem financeira while four others print net-interest-income compression masked by international diversification, commissions and volume.
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Eight years after the fourth-generation siblings tore up the José de Mello family protocol, Grupo Mello carries 50+ shareholders across six generations — about 80 in the sixth — and closes its largest M&A print since Brisa with the €330M Ercros takeover. Salvador de Mello runs the group at 5.56%.
