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Ryanair Demands Portugal Suspend the Entry-Exit System Until September After Two-Hour Queues at Faro, Funchal and Porto — Letter to Minister Luís Neves Cites Greece Precedent and EU's 90+60-Day Flexibility Window

Ryanair Demands Portugal Suspend the Entry-Exit System Until September After Two-Hour Queues at Faro, Funchal and Porto — Letter to Minister Luís Neves Cites Greece Precedent and EU's 90+60-Day Flexibility Window

Ryanair has formally asked Portugal to suspend the EU's biometric Entry-Exit System until after summer, citing one-to-two-hour queues at Faro, Porto and Funchal three weeks after launch. Greece has already exercised the EU's 90-day suspension carve-out.
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INE's Q1 2026 Flash Estimate Stops Quarterly Growth at Zero as April Inflation Jumps to 3.4% — Storm Cluster and Iran Conflict Knock 0.2pp Off GDP, Energy Prices Drive Headline CPI Up 0.7pp in a Month

INE's Q1 2026 Flash Estimate Stops Quarterly Growth at Zero as April Inflation Jumps to 3.4% — Storm Cluster and Iran Conflict Knock 0.2pp Off GDP, Energy Prices Drive Headline CPI Up 0.7pp in a Month

Statistics Portugal's flash estimates for Q1 GDP and April CPI, published Thursday, point to a stalling economy and reaccelerating prices. Quarterly growth is zero, year-on-year growth holds at 2.3%, and headline inflation lifts to 3.4% on the back of an 11.7% energy contribution.
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Montenegro Stages the First Decentralised Council of Ministers in Beja on Thursday — Government Announces a Monthly Cabinet-on-the-Road Format Around Major Regional Fairs and Sectoral Hubs

Montenegro Stages the First Decentralised Council of Ministers in Beja on Thursday — Government Announces a Monthly Cabinet-on-the-Road Format Around Major Regional Fairs and Sectoral Hubs

Prime Minister Luís Montenegro presides over Thursday's Council of Ministers from the Ovibeja agricultural fair in Beja — the first session of a new monthly decentralised format. The day opens with a Delta Cafés production line in Campo Maior; the Cabinet sits at 14:30 inside the fairgrounds.
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Bank of Portugal Governor Álvaro Santos Pereira Disposes of Nestlé and Navigator Shares After ECB Ethics Committee Pulls Him Back Inside the Single Supervisory Mechanism's Stricter Code — Capital Gains Donated to Charity

Bank of Portugal Governor Álvaro Santos Pereira Disposes of Nestlé and Navigator Shares After ECB Ethics Committee Pulls Him Back Inside the Single Supervisory Mechanism's Stricter Code — Capital Gains Donated to Charity

Bank of Portugal governor Álvaro Santos Pereira sold shares in Nestlé, Navigator, Galp and Jerónimo Martins after the ECB Ethics Committee informed him on 1 April that the SSM code bars governors from holding equities of any non-financial issuer. Capital gains were donated to charity.
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Parliament Moves to Stop Twenty-Two Competition Authority Cases Worth €800 Million From Going Out the Door on Prescription — Lawyers Warn the Retroactive Fix Will Land at the Constitutional Court

Parliament Moves to Stop Twenty-Two Competition Authority Cases Worth €800 Million From Going Out the Door on Prescription — Lawyers Warn the Retroactive Fix Will Land at the Constitutional Court

Parliament is debating a draft Concorrência amendment that would freeze prescription clocks for 22 ongoing AdC cases — fines totalling roughly €800 million, much on the food-distribution cartel — currently at risk of being annulled by elapsed time. Lawyers warn of retroactivity.
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