National road company, Infraestruturas de Portugal, says it has made progress during the past week with the refurbishment of the bridge over the Almargem river in Tavira.
Work on the EN125 bridge should be completed between the end of January and the beginning of February next year.
The eastern EN125 citizens’ movement will be explaining its position on Wednesday when representatives travel to Lisbon to a meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Economy, Innovation and Public Works.
The hearing was triggered by a PSD complaint back in April that the EN125 eastern section, between Olhão and Vila Real de Santo António, was in a dangerously poor state of repair.
Loulé Council, run by Vítor Aleixo of the Socialist Party, faces opposition to the his decision to go along with the 'Tourist Tax' proposal agreed by the region’s mayors at their last AMAL meeting.
The Social Democratic Party opposition in Loulé says that "the Council has more than €70 million in the bank, hence has funds to meet all the needs of the county," i.e. there is no need to rake in more money through a Tourist Tax.
A group of two thousand protestors against a proposed uranium mine near the Portuguese border gathered today in Vitigudino, Salamanca.
The uranium mine project at Retortillo, has pushed local livestock farmers into ‘serious objection’ mode as they fear the open cast mine will affect their animals.
The much-promoted image of Portugal’s nationals munching away on a healthy Mediterranean diet, bringing digestive ease and a long life, is not the reality, according to the country’s nutritionists.
Claiming that Portugal is 40 years behind in promoting healthy eating, it is necessary to "put measures into action with great force," to improve the dietary habits of the Portuguese, according to the Order of Nutritionists.
EDP Renewables (EDPR) is leading a consortium that is investing €125 million over three years in a 25 megawatt floating offshore wind farm.
Europe’s second floating wind farm involves anchoring three turbines on semi-submersible platforms at depths of up to 100 metres about 20 kilometres off the coast of Viana de Castelo in northern Portugal.
The building once used by Lagoa Council is being renovated before turning it into a municipal museum.
The €123,000 work programme will take three months and involved removing the old tiled roof and replacing them with sandwich panels in a lacquered steel finish.
Authorities in Portugal, Andorra and Spain, in addition to the United States, are investigating dozens of Venezuelan citizens suspected of laundering hundreds of millions of euros allegedly obtained from bribes when they held positions in public companies under the presidency of Hugo Chávez.
The former Vice Minister of Energy in the Chavez administration, Nervis Villalobos, was in Madrid last week for laundering money allegedly diverted from the state oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela S.A..
