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Budget Committee Greenlights a Parpública Hearing on the State-Enterprise Profit Collapse — UTAO 6/2026 Reads 2025 Net Profits Down 98% Across 126 SEE Firms, From €480 Million to €11 Million, as PSD Blocks the Miranda Sarmento Summons

Budget Committee Greenlights a Parpública Hearing on the State-Enterprise Profit Collapse — UTAO 6/2026 Reads 2025 Net Profits Down 98% Across 126 SEE Firms, From €480 Million to €11 Million, as PSD Blocks the Miranda Sarmento Summons

Parliament's Budget and Finance Committee approved a hearing of Parpública's chairman on the 98% collapse in 2025 state-enterprise profits — €480M to €11M across 126 firms — flagged in UTAO Report 6/2026. PSD blocked the parallel motion to summon Miranda Sarmento.
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Montenegro Walks Into the Berlin Wirtschaftstag With a 12.9% Export-Growth Pitch and a Multiannual Financial Framework Ask — Castro Almeida and Inês Domingos in Tow as Merz Closes the Stage at 19:20

Montenegro Walks Into the Berlin Wirtschaftstag With a 12.9% Export-Growth Pitch and a Multiannual Financial Framework Ask — Castro Almeida and Inês Domingos in Tow as Merz Closes the Stage at 19:20

Luís Montenegro spent Tuesday afternoon in Berlin: bilateral with Friedrich Merz at the Chancellery, then the closing block of the Wirtschaftsrat's 62nd Wirtschaftstag. The trip is timed to the next MFF debate — and Lisbon brought the Portugal-Germany trade book with it.
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Porto's Assembleia Municipal Approves Free Public Transport for the City's 252,687 Residents — €20.5 Million-a-Year Cartão Porto Will Cover the Whole Andante Network From January 2027, With a Pedro Duarte Push to Pull the Start Forward to This Summer

Porto's Assembleia Municipal Approves Free Public Transport for the City's 252,687 Residents — €20.5 Million-a-Year Cartão Porto Will Cover the Whole Andante Network From January 2027, With a Pedro Duarte Push to Pull the Start Forward to This Summer

Porto's Assembleia Municipal voted Monday night to make public transport free for the city's 252,687 residents — a €20.5 million-a-year Cartão Porto scheme covering the entire Andante network. Legal start: 1 January 2027. Câmara president Pedro Duarte is pushing for a summer 2026 rollout.
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PSD and CDS-PP Pitch a 'Defender Portugal' Civic-Military Programme to Hand 18-23-Year-Olds €439.21 and a Free Driving Licence — A 3-to-6 Week Internato Aimed at the Forças Armadas' 24,500-Active-Personnel Recruitment Crisis

PSD and CDS-PP Pitch a 'Defender Portugal' Civic-Military Programme to Hand 18-23-Year-Olds €439.21 and a Free Driving Licence — A 3-to-6 Week Internato Aimed at the Forças Armadas' 24,500-Active-Personnel Recruitment Crisis

AD's parliamentary resolution would create a voluntary three-to-six-week 'Defender Portugal' programme for 18-23-year-olds — €439.21 stipend (50% of basic-instruction first-tier pay), free driving licence in military establishments. Aimed at Portugal's 24,500-active-personnel recruitment crisis.
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President Seguro Signs the New Nationality Law Into Force — Naturalisation for Non-EU Residents Doubles to 10 Years, CPLP and EU Citizens Move to 7, and Birth-Right Citizenship Tightens to a Five-Year Parental Residency Test

President Seguro Signs the New Nationality Law Into Force — Naturalisation for Non-EU Residents Doubles to 10 Years, CPLP and EU Citizens Move to 7, and Birth-Right Citizenship Tightens to a Five-Year Parental Residency Test

President Seguro signed the new Lei da Nacionalidade on 3 May 2026, doubling naturalisation residency to 10 years for non-EU/CPLP applicants, raising it to 7 years for EU and CPLP citizens, and tightening birth-right citizenship to a 5-year parental residency test.
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Carlos Moedas's Câmara Books €75,000 of Public Money for Sunday's Chic-Nic at Parque Eduardo VII — €150-€300 Tickets, Wicker Baskets and a Marquês de Pombal Stage Open the Lisbon City-Image Debate Wide Open

Carlos Moedas's Câmara Books €75,000 of Public Money for Sunday's Chic-Nic at Parque Eduardo VII — €150-€300 Tickets, Wicker Baskets and a Marquês de Pombal Stage Open the Lisbon City-Image Debate Wide Open

Lisbon's Câmara has put €75,000 of municipal money into Sunday's Chic-Nic at Parque Eduardo VII — a €150-€300-per-head upscale picnic with red-and-white tablecloths, wicker baskets and a Marquês de Pombal stage. The event has reopened the Lisbon city-image debate.
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