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The Associação Internacional dos Lusodescendentes (AILD, International Association of Lusodescendants) has filed a formal request with the Comissão de Negócios Estrangeiros e Comunidades Portuguesas (Foreign Affairs and Portuguese Communities...
President António José Seguro on Friday 5 June 2026 promulgated three decree-laws on the Serviço Nacional de Saúde (SNS, National Health Service), including the long-stalled regime on the hiring of tarefeiros — the term commonly used for doctors who...
The PSD parliamentary group has tabled a project of law in the Assembleia da República (Assembly of the Republic) that seeks to fix, by way of an interpretação autêntica (authentic legislative interpretation), the divergent court readings of Verba...
Directive (EU) 2023/970 — the EU Pay-Transparency Directive — must be transposed into Portuguese law by Sunday 7 June 2026. Lisbon has not yet tabled a diploma. ACT is already enforcing on Directive spirit; Article 258 TFEU infringement-risk territory opens on Monday.
President António José Seguro opened the 15th National Misericórdias Congress in Braga on 4 June 2026 by branding Portuguese demographic ageing a 'bomba-relógio' and crediting immigrant workers with holding the 388-strong, 52,000-worker network together.
Health Minister Ana Paula Martins disowns the PS-era Local Health Units reform at a 4 June Assembleia hearing, pledges balanced SNS accounts by 2029 and summons former SNS executive Fernando Araújo back to Parliament.
PSP made six detentions and fired warning shots after confrontations at Assembleia da República late on 3 June 2026 — Article 347/348 Código Penal track, garbage bins on fire, glass bottles thrown at cordon. Leitão Amaro: 'some exceeded the limits'; CGTP distanced from the post-march sub-group.
