SPAC, Portugal's civil-aviation pilots' union, wrote to Infrastructure Minister Miguel Pinto Luz questioning Lufthansa's 'labour suitability' as a TAP buyer, citing the German carrier's abrupt cancellation of its 2018 VC union agreement during strikes.
Portugal has lost €100 million of PRR money earmarked for Todos os Santos — the country's biggest public works. A commission appointed 6 April must renegotiate with Mota-Engil and explain a cost that grew from €334M (2017) to €800M (2025).
Six of Santa Maria's 31 emergency team leaders stepped down after the hospital removed João Gouveia as director of the urgência central with eight months of his mandate still to run. The hospital says the move is 'routine'; the chiefs left their posts anyway.
Council of Ministers meets Wednesday morning to sign off the PTRR storm-recovery plan. Montenegro receives Nobel Peace laureate María Corina Machado at São Bento at 15:00. INSA registers 21,813 Q1 newborn screenings — a ten-year peak.
The Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge says 21,813 newborns were screened under the national heel-prick programme in Q1 2026 — the highest first-quarter figure in ten years, up 5% on Q1 2025 and topping the 21,065 recorded in Q1 2023.
Montenegro convened an extraordinary Council of Ministers at 10:00 Wednesday to approve the final design of the PTRR — the storm-recovery plan answering Kristin, Leonardo and Marta, which killed 18. Short term: end-2026; medium: 2029; long: 2034.
Luís Montenegro hosts Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado at São Bento at 15:00 on Wednesday 22 April, after Madrid meetings with Feijóo and Martínez-Almeida — part of a broader European push for support against the Rodríguez regime.
