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Portugal Fresh Books a Record €2.7 Million for International Promotion Through 2027 — Sixteen-Year-Old Fruit-and-Veg Trade Body Steps Up Pace as Sector Closes 2024 at €2.5 Billion in Exports
Portugal Fresh, the trade body for fruit, vegetable and flower exporters, has approved a €2.7 million plan through 2027 — its largest in 16 years. The push lands on a sector that closed 2024 at €2.5 billion in exports, up 7.5%, with Spain taking 37.6%.
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SITESE Calls a 24-Hour Walkout at APED Member Companies for May 1 — UGT-Affiliated Distribution Union Targets 220 Retailers Including the Sixty Biggest Food Chains, Pre-Strike Notice Already Lodged
SITESE, the UGT-affiliated commerce union, has lodged a pre-strike notice for a 24-hour stoppage on Friday, 1 May across the entire APED perimeter — 220 retailers including the sixty biggest food chains. Demands: a 35-hour week, an end to precarity.
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Cegid Bills €85 Million in Portugal in Its First Full Year After Buying PHC — Lyon-Based Group's Iberian Bet Now Anchors a 700-Person Lisbon Operation Targeting 10% Growth in 2026
Lyon-based Cegid Group closed 2025 — the year it absorbed Portuguese software house PHC — with €85 million in Portuguese revenue and a forecast 10% increase for 2026. GM Paulo Carvalho says the integration is complete and AI is now the priority.
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Via do Infante Year One Without Portagens — A22 Logged 355 Accidents and 105 Injured in 2025, Up 64% on 2024, Even as Road Fatalities Fell to Zero
The first full year without tolls on the A22 turned the Algarve’s east-west highway into a busier and more dangerous road. GNR data released on 27 April 2026 and reported by Lusa, RTP, SIC Notícias, Observador and Diário de...
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Health Ministry Opens a €50 Million Competitive Grant for Hospital Emergency Departments — Psychiatric Urgência Made the Top Priority, Every Build-Out and Equipment Order Has to Close by End of 2027
Nelson Garrido has put a €50 million envelope on the table for hospital emergency-department upgrades, with psychiatric urgências named as the priority area. SNS hospitals will compete for slices through a candidatura process; everything must be delivered by end of 2027.
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Two Officers from Lisbon's Esquadra do Rato Sent for Trial on Torture and Sexual-Assault Charges — 13 Vulnerable Victims, 36 Combined Counts, Instructory Decision Read Out on Monday Morning
An instructing judge on Monday referred two PSP officers from Lisbon's Rato police station to trial on torture and sexual-assault charges involving at least 13 vulnerable victims. The agents face a combined 36 counts; seven other suspects remain under investigation.