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At the close of the PSD congress, Prime Minister Luis Montenegro announced a sovereign wealth fund that would take minority stakes in strategic companies, managed by the IGCP and funded from the State Budget.
PSD opens 43rd Congress in Anadia on Saturday with 18 sectorial motions and a Lusofonia ministry pitch teed up — Montenegro arrives one day after the Trabalho XXI labour reform collapsed in the Assembleia da República.
Portugal's former prime minister António Costa, now in his second year as president of the European Council, has spent the last week handling the most significant foreign-policy storm of his Brussels mandate. Bloomberg reported on 17 June 2026 that...
The Ministry of Labour has dropped the Código das Prestações Sociais from the PRR's Social Security milestone, leaving the Prestação Social Única as the sole gate to the €5.193 billion final tranche — Palma Ramalho cited a 63-month RSI duration before parliament on Friday.
The Council of Ministers on 18 June 2026 filed the Albufeira Convention Protocol II with Parliament, tightening the Pomarão Guadiana flow regime with Spain. The revision anchors monthly water-sharing rules as drought stress hits Portugal's southern transboundary basin.
Defence Minister Nuno Melo on 19 June hands the Forças Armadas a standing authorisation to act on wildfires without a prior civil-protection request, with a permanent Monte Real operations centre running P-3C CUP+, C-295M, drones and a Black Hawk on heat-wave watch.
Chega joined the entire left bench to reject the Trabalho XXI labour reform in Friday's generalidade vote, defeating Prime Minister Luís Montenegro's flagship Código do Trabalho rewrite. Only PSD, CDS-PP and IL voted in favour.
