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Portugal's Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale Opens With Alexandre Estrela's RedSkyFalls — A Real-Time Installation Wired to Global Seismic Activity Above Magnitude 4.5, in a Biennale Reshaped by the Russia-Israel Boycott

Portugal's Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale Opens With Alexandre Estrela's RedSkyFalls — A Real-Time Installation Wired to Global Seismic Activity Above Magnitude 4.5, in a Biennale Reshaped by the Russia-Israel Boycott

Portugal's pavilion at the 61st Venice Art Biennale opened on Friday with Alexandre Estrela's RedSkyFalls — an installation at Palazzo Fondaco Marcello wired to global seismic activity above magnitude 4.5. The Biennale opens to the public on Saturday under a Russia-Israel boycott controversy.
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Portugal's 2025–2026 Olive Oil Campaign Closes at 160,000 Tonnes — Production Has Quintupled in 26 Years and Is Worth €700 Million as CEPAAL Pushes a Portuguese Brand to Reclaim the Margin That Currently Flows to Spanish and Italian Bottlers

Portugal's 2025–2026 Olive Oil Campaign Closes at 160,000 Tonnes — Production Has Quintupled in 26 Years and Is Worth €700 Million as CEPAAL Pushes a Portuguese Brand to Reclaim the Margin That Currently Flows to Spanish and Italian Bottlers

Portugal closed the 2025–2026 olive oil campaign at 160,000 tonnes — five times the production at the start of the century — worth €700 million at current bulk prices. CEPAAL is pushing a Portuguese brand to capture the margin currently flowing to Spanish and Italian bottlers.
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Jean Barroca Confirms Undeclared High-Income Foreigners Are Drawing the Tarifa Social de Eletricidade — Government Will Tighten the 2016 Auto-Assignment Rules After IEA Flags 760,000 Households, the Same Count as Spain at a Quarter of the Population

Jean Barroca Confirms Undeclared High-Income Foreigners Are Drawing the Tarifa Social de Eletricidade — Government Will Tighten the 2016 Auto-Assignment Rules After IEA Flags 760,000 Households, the Same Count as Spain at a Quarter of the Population

Energy Secretary of State Jean Barroca said on Friday that high-income foreigners who do not declare income in Portugal are drawing the tarifa social de eletricidade through automatic enrolment. With 760,000 households enrolled — identical to Spain — the rules will be tightened.
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