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DECIR 2026 Lands in Alentejo Central With 393 Operacionais and 99 Vehicles for the July-September Delta Phase — Maria João Rosado Reads One Light Bomber Helicopter Into Évora From 15 May, Estremoz Public Presentation Tomorrow

DECIR 2026 Lands in Alentejo Central With 393 Operacionais and 99 Vehicles for the July-September Delta Phase — Maria João Rosado Reads One Light Bomber Helicopter Into Évora From 15 May, Estremoz Public Presentation Tomorrow

DECIR 2026 fields 393 operacionais and 99 vehicles in Alentejo Central for the 1 July-30 September Delta peak, with one light bomber helicopter based in Évora from 15 May. Commander Maria João Rosado presents the device publicly in Estremoz on 12 May.
The Portugal Brief
MAI Books €36 Million for SIRESP With 33 Working-Group Recommendations and an 18-Month Timeline — Internal Administration's Luís Neves Pitches Energy Autonomy and Redundancies After the April 2025 Blackout and the Storm Kristin Centro Outage

MAI Books €36 Million for SIRESP With 33 Working-Group Recommendations and an 18-Month Timeline — Internal Administration's Luís Neves Pitches Energy Autonomy and Redundancies After the April 2025 Blackout and the Storm Kristin Centro Outage

MAI booked roughly €36 million on Tuesday to strengthen SIRESP, Portugal's emergency-communications backbone, with 33 working-group recommendations and an 18-month implementation timeline aimed at the energy and redundancy gaps exposed by the April 2025 blackout and Storm Kristin's Centro outage.
The Portugal Brief
Parliament's Blackout Working Group Says CORGOV Is Beyond Its Reach — Confidentiality Wall Stops MPs Scrutinising the Government's Crisis-Response Cell on the Eve of the One-Year Anniversary

Parliament's Blackout Working Group Says CORGOV Is Beyond Its Reach — Confidentiality Wall Stops MPs Scrutinising the Government's Crisis-Response Cell on the Eve of the One-Year Anniversary

Parliament's apagão working group finalised a draft report this weekend that admits CORGOV — the Government's new crisis-response cell created after the 28 April 2025 blackout — is beyond MPs' reach because of confidentiality. The vote lands Tuesday, exactly one year after the lights went out.
The Portugal Brief