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Council of Ministers approves the Prestação Social Única on 29 May 2026: 13 solidarity supports merge under one means test, a trabalho social counterpart hits active-age beneficiaries and the €500M PRR tranche depends on the diploma entering force by end of August.
Roughly 400 PJ inspectors and seven DIAP Lisboa prosecutors moved on PS câmaras, juntas and the Largo do Rato HQ on 28 May — 60 home and 32 non-residential search warrants in Lisbon, Mafra, Oeiras and Coimbra, 37 arguidos and the Santa Maria Maior junta on the charge sheet.
Lisbon Mayor Carlos Moedas said the câmara was 'caught by surprise' by 93 reconstruction-aid candidaturas filed by Lisbon residents through a government platform the CML only got on 20 May. The dispute opens a new front between Moedas and central government on post-Storm-Kristin support.
The Conselho das Finanças Públicas projects 2027-28 primary current spending growth above the path Finance Minister Joaquim Miranda Sarmento committed to Brussels. The Thursday 28 May reading flags rigidity in pensions and civil-service wages and calls the 2% growth forecast overly optimistic.
Seven days out from the Wednesday 3 June greve geral, the CGTP's adhesion list has lengthened to CP rail, TAP cabin crew, Autoeuropa workers, AIMA mediators and Frente Comum — the most broadly subscribed labour stoppage Portugal has lined up in more than a decade.
The Conselho Superior da Magistratura (CSM) has handed down a critical parecer on the Government's proposal to overhaul the heranças indivisas regime, warning that the bill — designed to unblock estates stuck for years between disagreeing heirs —...
Portugal has signed a joint letter with 15 other European Union member states — the Amigos da Coesão coalition — pressing the European Commission for a slower repayment schedule on the Next Generation EU borrowing programme and for a new round of...
