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Ponta Delgada Capital Portuguesa da Cultura Loses Half Its €5.3 Million Envelope After Turismo de Portugal Walks and Chega + Movimento PDL Para Todos Block the €2 Million Câmara Top-Up

Ponta Delgada Capital Portuguesa da Cultura Loses Half Its €5.3 Million Envelope After Turismo de Portugal Walks and Chega + Movimento PDL Para Todos Block the €2 Million Câmara Top-Up

PDL26 — Ponta Delgada's year as Capital Portuguesa da Cultura — has lost €2.3M of its original €5.3M envelope after Turismo de Portugal pulled investment, EU sources receded and Chega + Movimento PDL Para Todos blocked a €2M Câmara Municipal top-up, leaving the operating budget around €3M.
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Assembleia da República Greenlights Lei de Política Criminal 2026-2028 With Prison-Crew Forest-Cleaning Mandate, Stop-and-Search Powers in Zonas de Criminalidade de Impacto Social and a Priority-Crime List Headed by Arson

Assembleia da República Greenlights Lei de Política Criminal 2026-2028 With Prison-Crew Forest-Cleaning Mandate, Stop-and-Search Powers in Zonas de Criminalidade de Impacto Social and a Priority-Crime List Headed by Arson

Parliament passed the Lei de Política Criminal (Criminal Policy Law) for 2026-2028 on 12 June, putting prison-crew forest-cleaning and police pat-downs in high-impact-crime zones onto the statute. PSD, Chega, IL and CDS-PP carried; Livre, PCP, BE opposed; PS, PAN, JPP abstained.
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Livre and Bloco de Esquerda File Parallel PSU Alternatives Stripping the Trabalho Social Clause and Pegging the Reference to the Limiar de Pobreza Rather Than the €537.13 IAS — €620 Million PRR Tranche on the End-August Clock

Livre and Bloco de Esquerda File Parallel PSU Alternatives Stripping the Trabalho Social Clause and Pegging the Reference to the Limiar de Pobreza Rather Than the €537.13 IAS — €620 Million PRR Tranche on the End-August Clock

Livre and the Bloco de Esquerda tabled separate alternative texts to the Government's Prestação Social Única (Unified Social Benefit, PSU) at the Assembleia da República (Parliament) on Monday 8 June, with both parties stripping out the trabalho...
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