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BA Glass Closes Its First North African Deal — Vila Nova de Gaia Group Takes 41% of Tunisia's Sotuver Through Its Dutch Holding, Adding a 650-Worker Plant Outside Tunis to a 13-Factory European-and-Mexican Footprint

BA Glass Closes Its First North African Deal — Vila Nova de Gaia Group Takes 41% of Tunisia's Sotuver Through Its Dutch Holding, Adding a 650-Worker Plant Outside Tunis to a 13-Factory European-and-Mexican Footprint

Vila Nova de Gaia's BA Glass has closed its first North African deal — 41% of Tunisia's Sotuver via Dutch holding BA Glass B.V. Tunis CMF cleared the transfer on 2 April, after Commerce Ministry approval 4 March. The 650-worker Khelidia plant joins a 13-factory €1.5bn footprint.
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284,000 Portuguese Workers Have Now Exhausted the Annual Self-Declaration Cap as the SNS 24 Autobaixa Turns Three — Q1 2026 Pace Climbs to 1,790 a Day and 5,921 Filed on January 2 Alone

284,000 Portuguese Workers Have Now Exhausted the Annual Self-Declaration Cap as the SNS 24 Autobaixa Turns Three — Q1 2026 Pace Climbs to 1,790 a Day and 5,921 Filed on January 2 Alone

By end-March 2026, 284,000 Portuguese workers had exhausted their annual two-a-year SNS 24 self-declaration cap, per SPMS data via ECO. Q1 2026 ran at 1,790 declarations a day; 2 January alone hit 5,921. Cumulative since the May 2023 launch: 1.5 million visits diverted from primary care.
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