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Industry

Mitsubishi Fuso Notifies IEFP of an Eventual July Lay-Off Covering Up to 400 Tramagal Workers — Diesel Canter Sunset Routes the Plant Toward eCanter-Only European Production for the Daimler Truck Stack

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck Europe has notified Portugal's IEFP of an eventual lay-off covering up to 400 Tramagal workers in July, per a 15 May Ministério do Trabalho response to a PCP question. The diesel Canter sunset routes the Daimler Truck-owned plant toward eCanter-only European production.

2 June 2026

Government

Council of Ministers Greenlights the Prestação Social Única — 13 Solidarity Supports Fold Into a Single Means Test on 29 May and a Trabalho Social Counterpart Anchors the €500 Million PRR Window for August

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.

29 May 2026

Environment

Portugal's 400,000-Tonne Mobiliário-e-Colchões Waste Stream Heads to a New Entidade Gestora by End-2026 — 25% Selective-Collection Target Lands on Câmaras Already Carrying Bulk-Pickup Duty Since 1 January 2025

APA targets a new entidade gestora for the ~400,000-tonne furniture-and-mattress waste stream by end-2026, with a 25% selective-collection target. Câmaras have carried the duty without a financing model since January 2025.

26 May 2026

Finance

Autoridade Tributária's Informação Vinculativa Subjects CGA Work-Accident Pensions to Full IRS Under the Decreto-Lei 503/99 Carve-Out — Retroactive Public-Service Payouts From 2013 Trigger the Article 74 Splitting Option

AT informação vinculativa confirms CGA work-accident pensions for civil servants are taxed under IRS — the Decreto-Lei 503/99 carve-out blocks the Article 12 exemption, and retroactive lump sums qualify for the Article 74 splitting option.

26 May 2026

Legal

Ministério Público Asks the Supremo Tribunal to Suspend Ricardo Salgado's 10-to-11-Year Cúmulo Jurídico Citing Alzheimer — June 2 Reading Looms as the Defence Already Accepted Effective Prison in Operação Marquês and Caso EDP

MP asks Supremo Tribunal to merge Salgado's Operação Marquês 8-year and Caso EDP 6yr3m sentences into a 10-11 year cúmulo jurídico and suspend execution under Article 50 on Alzheimer grounds. Reading on 2 June 2026.

26 May 2026

Aviation

SATA Stacks Extraordinary Sunday-to-Monday Rotations as Recurrent Atlantic Fog Pins Both Inter-Island and Continental Routes From Friday 22 May

SATA is running extraordinary Sunday-to-Monday rotations to clear a backlog built since Friday 22 May, when recurrent Atlantic fog began grounding flights at Ponta Delgada and several inter-island runways. Slot availability at Lisbon and Porto sets the pace.

25 May 2026

Politics

Montenegro Rules Out a Salário-Mínimo Pension Floor and an Earlier Retirement Age at the 29th JSD Congress in Viseu — João Pedro Luís Takes the Youth-Wing Chair With 58%

Luís Montenegro closed the 29th JSD Congress in Viseu on Sunday 24 May by ruling out a pension floor pegged to the €920 minimum wage and any reduction of the 66-and-9-months retirement age. João Pedro Luís, 24, took the JSD presidency with 58%.

25 May 2026