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France's Sonepar Snaps Up Grupo LCI From the Carapeta Family — €48 Million Revenue, 200-Worker Montijo Distributor Folds Tanqueluz, Futurluz and Vedrel Into the €33.6 Billion Group's Portuguese Network on a 2 June Sale-and-Purchase Agreement

France's Sonepar Snaps Up Grupo LCI From the Carapeta Family — €48 Million Revenue, 200-Worker Montijo Distributor Folds Tanqueluz, Futurluz and Vedrel Into the €33.6 Billion Group's Portuguese Network on a 2 June Sale-and-Purchase Agreement

France's Sonepar acquires 100% of Montijo-based Grupo LCI from the Carapeta family — Tanqueluz, Futurluz and Vedrel trading names, €48M revenue and 200 employees fold into the €33.6 billion group's Portuguese network. Sale-and-purchase agreement signed 2 June; integration runs through 2026-2027.
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Ministério da Saúde Swaps Out the ULS Santa Maria Primary-Care Clinical Director on Conveniência de Serviço — Rita Molinar Replaces Eunice Carrapiço at the Country's Largest Unidade Local de Saúde With 120,000 Patients Sitting Without a Médico de Família

Ministério da Saúde Swaps Out the ULS Santa Maria Primary-Care Clinical Director on Conveniência de Serviço — Rita Molinar Replaces Eunice Carrapiço at the Country's Largest Unidade Local de Saúde With 120,000 Patients Sitting Without a Médico de Família

Ministério da Saúde dismisses Eunice Carrapiço and appoints Ana Rita Molinar as primary-care clinical director at ULS Santa Maria — the country's largest local health unit, with 120,000 residents without a médico de família. Mechanism: conveniência de serviço; CReSAP cleared the pick.
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Conselho de Ministros Hands the Agência PTRR Presidency to Luís Leite Ramos as the €22.6 Billion Portugal Transformação, Recuperação e Resiliência Plan Heads Into Its Execution Phase — 96 Measures, 15 Domains and a 2034 Horizon

Conselho de Ministros Hands the Agência PTRR Presidency to Luís Leite Ramos as the €22.6 Billion Portugal Transformação, Recuperação e Resiliência Plan Heads Into Its Execution Phase — 96 Measures, 15 Domains and a 2034 Horizon

Council of Ministers picks ex-PSD deputy Luís Leite Ramos to chair the new Agência PTRR, the €22.6 billion nine-year Portugal Transformação, Recuperação e Resiliência plan covering 96 measures across 15 domains and running to 2034. First operational milestone: a 2026-2027 work programme by 31 July.
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AirAdvisor Tape Pegs Portuguese Airline Compensation Bill at €53 Million for January-May 2026 on 4.5 Million Disrupted Passengers — Storm Kristin Carve-Out Trims the Owed Total Below the Same-Period 2025 Mark

AirAdvisor Tape Pegs Portuguese Airline Compensation Bill at €53 Million for January-May 2026 on 4.5 Million Disrupted Passengers — Storm Kristin Carve-Out Trims the Owed Total Below the Same-Period 2025 Mark

AirAdvisor reads out €53 million in compensation owed to passengers on Portuguese-departing flights for January-May 2026 — 4.5 million travellers disrupted, 130,000 holding Regulation 261/2004 entitlements. Storm Kristin's extraordinary-circumstances carve-out trims the bill below 2025.
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Swapping Your Foreign Driving Licence for the Portuguese Carta de Condução in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the IMT Process, the EU/EEA Auto-Conversion Path, the Non-EU 90-Day Examination Window and the Residency-Trigger Calendar

Swapping Your Foreign Driving Licence for the Portuguese Carta de Condução in 2026 — A Practical Guide to the IMT Process, the EU/EEA Auto-Conversion Path, the Non-EU 90-Day Examination Window and the Residency-Trigger Calendar

A foreign driving licence in Portugal carries an expiry-of-recognition clock that starts ticking when residency triggers fire — this practical guide closes the IMT process, the EU/EEA path, the non-EU 90-day examination window and worked profiles for US, UK, French and Brazilian relocators.
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Council of Ministers Reworks the IVA Liquidation Regime on Combustíveis to Choke Out Fuel-Sector Fraud — Leitão Amaro Backs the CIVA Adjustment as the Same 11 June Vote Wraps an SME Capital-Markets Simplification Package

Council of Ministers Reworks the IVA Liquidation Regime on Combustíveis to Choke Out Fuel-Sector Fraud — Leitão Amaro Backs the CIVA Adjustment as the Same 11 June Vote Wraps an SME Capital-Markets Simplification Package

The Council of Ministers approved a CIVA rework on 11 June 2026 that shifts the VAT liquidation moment on combustíveis upstream to the entrepôt aduaneiro entry gateway — closing the missing-trader gap, alongside a paired SME capital-markets simplification package.
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Lisbon Calls For an EU Spending-Safeguard Carve-Out on Power-Bill Support — Miranda Sarmento Pitches the Energy-Crisis Exception to the Eurogroup as Portugal Ranks Fifth on the Energy-Support Share-of-GDP Tape

Lisbon Calls For an EU Spending-Safeguard Carve-Out on Power-Bill Support — Miranda Sarmento Pitches the Energy-Crisis Exception to the Eurogroup as Portugal Ranks Fifth on the Energy-Support Share-of-GDP Tape

Joaquim Miranda Sarmento told the 11 June Eurogroup in Luxembourg that the European Commission must create an energy-crisis escape clause modelled on the defense-spending carve-out — Portugal ranks fifth in the EU on energy-support share of GDP and is asking for the same fiscal-rules treatment.
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