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Portuguese Câmaras Split on 17 May Pride Flag — Porto, Coimbra, Almada, Seixal, Santarém and Funchal Mark IDAHOBIT With the Rainbow Hoist While Lisbon's Right-Wing Majority Keeps the Symbol Off the Paços do Concelho

Portuguese Câmaras Split on 17 May Pride Flag — Porto, Coimbra, Almada, Seixal, Santarém and Funchal Mark IDAHOBIT With the Rainbow Hoist While Lisbon's Right-Wing Majority Keeps the Symbol Off the Paços do Concelho

Six Portuguese câmaras mark 17 May IDAHOBIT with a rainbow flag-raising on Sunday — Porto leads at 17:00 on Praça Humberto Delgado. Lisbon's PSD-CDS-IL-Chega majority blocked a Bloco proposal on 6 May. Activists gather at the Câmara at 11:00.
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STCP Walks Its 2025 Operational Year Out at 71.8 Million Passengers and €2.9 Million Lucro Líquido — Porto's Public Transport Operator Books a Second Consecutive Year in the Black

STCP Walks Its 2025 Operational Year Out at 71.8 Million Passengers and €2.9 Million Lucro Líquido — Porto's Public Transport Operator Books a Second Consecutive Year in the Black

STCP — Sociedade de Transportes Colectivos do Porto — closed the 2025 operational year at 71.8 million passengers carried and a €2.9 million lucro líquido, posting a second consecutive year in the black against a heavy fleet-electrification and Andante-integration capex tape.
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MAI Luís Neves Walks the PSP Esquadra Closure Plan Onto Grande Entrevista on Thursday 14 May — 30-Agente Threshold Per Station Becomes the Reorganisation Trigger as Lisbon and Porto Reset the Urban Policing Map

MAI Luís Neves Walks the PSP Esquadra Closure Plan Onto Grande Entrevista on Thursday 14 May — 30-Agente Threshold Per Station Becomes the Reorganisation Trigger as Lisbon and Porto Reset the Urban Policing Map

Internal Administration Minister Luís Neves used the Thursday 14 May 2026 edition of RTP3's Grande Entrevista to confirm — for the first time on the record — that the Polícia de Segurança Pública will close esquadras in Lisbon and other major urban...
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PRO.VAR Walks the Restauração Tradicional Crisis File Back at the BdP Governor After His Five-Indicator Defense — Álvaro Santos Pereira's '69% Nominal Growth Since 2019' Reading Collides With the May 10 Publico Estruturalmente Débil Deep Dive

PRO.VAR Walks the Restauração Tradicional Crisis File Back at the BdP Governor After His Five-Indicator Defense — Álvaro Santos Pereira's '69% Nominal Growth Since 2019' Reading Collides With the May 10 Publico Estruturalmente Débil Deep Dive

PRO.VAR has rejected BdP Governor Álvaro Santos Pereira's five-indicator no-crisis reading of the restaurant sector, arguing the BdP aggregate masks the collapse of traditional restaurants — a debate sharpened by Publico's May 10 deep dive on the segment's structural fragility.
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Montenegro Walks 400 New PSP Agents Into the Lisbon and Porto Metropolitan Commands Through End-2026 — Carlos Moedas and Pedro Duarte Leave São Bento With 200 Agents Each, Plus a 500-Officer Esquadra Reorganisation in Porto, Lisboa and Setúbal

Montenegro Walks 400 New PSP Agents Into the Lisbon and Porto Metropolitan Commands Through End-2026 — Carlos Moedas and Pedro Duarte Leave São Bento With 200 Agents Each, Plus a 500-Officer Esquadra Reorganisation in Porto, Lisboa and Setúbal

Prime Minister Luís Montenegro walked out of an extraordinarily-scheduled meeting at São Bento on Monday 12 May 2026 with the Câmaras of Lisbon and Porto and announced that 400 new agents of the Polícia de Segurança Pública will be assigned to the...
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Sonae's International Sales Climb 45% Past €2.3 Billion in 2025 — Maia Holding Adds 1,070 Stores Abroad, Pushes Foreign Revenue Above 20% of the Group for the First Time and Books €247 Million of Attributable Net Profit

Sonae's International Sales Climb 45% Past €2.3 Billion in 2025 — Maia Holding Adds 1,070 Stores Abroad, Pushes Foreign Revenue Above 20% of the Group for the First Time and Books €247 Million of Attributable Net Profit

Sonae's 2025 international sales reached €2.3 billion (+45% YoY), offshore revenue past 20% of the group for the first time. The Maia holding added 74 net stores abroad to reach 1,070, lifted consolidated revenue 14.2% to €11.4 billion and printed €247M of attributable net profit.
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AIMA Reimposes the 10-Senha Daily Cap on Lawyers at the Porto Loja With a 12h–16h Window — Three Cases Per Advogado Per Day Against a 200,000-File Court Backlog, Less Than a Year After the National Cap Was Lifted by Protocol With the Ordem

AIMA Reimposes the 10-Senha Daily Cap on Lawyers at the Porto Loja With a 12h–16h Window — Three Cases Per Advogado Per Day Against a 200,000-File Court Backlog, Less Than a Year After the National Cap Was Lifted by Protocol With the Ordem

The Agência para a Integração, Migrações e Asilo has quietly reimposed the ten-senha daily cap on lawyers at its Porto loja, with access squeezed into a four-hour 12h–16h window. Público's Vicente Nunes reads the new rule on the ground on Saturday...
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