EDP ‘Renováveis’ sells Spanish wind portfolio to China Three Gorges
China Three Gorges already largest shareholder in EDP EDP Renováveis (EDPR) – the renewables arm of Energias de Portugal (EDP) – has sold a 100% stake in a wind portfolio
14 high-speed ‘narco boats’ seized
Portuguese and Spanish police swoop on Viana do Castelo boat builders 14 super-fast narco boats worth millions of euros have been seized after police moved in on boat building concerns
Request for cap on wholesale electricity price
Portugal and Spain will be presenting proposal to EU Teresa Ribeira, Spain’s minister for ecological transition has confirmed today that the governments of Spain and Portugal intend to present a
Fuel crisis: Portugal’s PM to meet leaders of Spain, Italy, Greece
Meeting takes place on Friday ahead of regular EU summit The prime ministers of Portugal, Spain Italy and Greece will be meeting in Rome on Friday ahead of a regular
Portugal “continues to purchase energy powered by coal”
Portugal may have stopped producing electrical energy powered by the burning of coal (an ‘advance’ for which there was much self-congratulation) – but it continues to import energy from countries
Portuguese described as “one of Europe’s largest crypto-scammers” arrested in Valencia
A 45-year-old Portuguese man, described as “one of Europe’s largest cryptocurrency scammers”, has been arrested in Spain following an investigation involving Europol and tech investigators. The man, as yet unnamed,
Algarve hospitals desperately trying to hire nurses from Spain
The chronic lack of nurses within CHUA (the university hospital centre of the Algarve) has led to a new drive to (try and) attract nurses from neighbouring Spain. Nursing director
French health minister sends message of ‘calm’ regarding holidays in Portugal
After the panic over holidays in Portugal created by France’s secretary of state for European Affairs (click here), the country’s health minister has transmitted what is being described today as
France advises citizens against holidays in Portugal and Spain
France is today reported to be ‘advising’ its citizens against trips to Portugal and Spain. The French secretary of state for European Affairs Clement Baune has described the situation in
More than 5,000 cars cross Algarve frontier from Spain in two days…
Thousands of Spaniards took advantage of the reopening of land borders to Portugal this weekend to file into the Algarve. Indeed numbers this morning were far higher than those driving