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Maria Lúcia Amaral Tells RTP Antena 1 Podcast That Wildfires and Tempestade Kristin 'Escaped' Her — Former MAI Minister Frames Her 10 February Resignation Around the Loss of Authority on Civil Protection

Maria Lúcia Amaral Tells RTP Antena 1 Podcast That Wildfires and Tempestade Kristin 'Escaped' Her — Former MAI Minister Frames Her 10 February Resignation Around the Loss of Authority on Civil Protection

Former Interior Minister Maria Lúcia Amaral, in her first post-resignation interview on RTP Antena 1's Ponto de Interrogação podcast aired 9 June, says she stepped down after losing the authority to govern when the 2025 wildfires and Tempestade Kristin 'escaped' her.
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STRN Pulls Conservatórias Offline From 8 to 13 June — 279 Conservador Vacancies (38%) and 2,731 Oficial Gaps (55%) Frame the Week-Long Strike as Porto's Predial, Civil and Comercial Counters Drop Behind Minimum Services

STRN Pulls Conservatórias Offline From 8 to 13 June — 279 Conservador Vacancies (38%) and 2,731 Oficial Gaps (55%) Frame the Week-Long Strike as Porto's Predial, Civil and Comercial Counters Drop Behind Minimum Services

The Sindicato dos Trabalhadores dos Registos e Notariado (Union of Registry and Notary Workers, STRN) opened a six-day national strike at 00:00 on Monday 8 June 2026, with action scheduled to run through Saturday 13 June across every conservatória —...
The Portugal Brief
Saturday's Público Investigation Reads Portugal's Suplementos Alimentares Pipeline as a 47% Adult-Use Wave, a +80%-in-Ten-Years Notification Surge and a DGAV Backlog Tracked in 'Tens of Thousands of Avulso Emails'

Saturday's Público Investigation Reads Portugal's Suplementos Alimentares Pipeline as a 47% Adult-Use Wave, a +80%-in-Ten-Years Notification Surge and a DGAV Backlog Tracked in 'Tens of Thousands of Avulso Emails'

Público's Saturday 6 June 2026 multi-part investigation by João Pinhal and Tiago Ramalho lands the Portuguese food-supplement (suplementos alimentares) market in a regulatory frame that the country's own Direção-Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária...
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