This morning in Faro Ricardo Serrão Santos, Minister of the Sea, issued journalists and environment experts with a stark statement on the fight against environmental issues, saying that Portugal is “on the frontlines".
A so-called “Guadiana Solution” has been proposed as a way to help fight against the effects of the drought the Algarve has suffered over the past few months. This short term solution, alongside a handful of longer term solutions to tackle this issue, have stemmed from the cycle of debates on the availability and use of water promoted by the University of Algarve and the association Algfuturo over the past month.
A Portuguese hacker unveiled himself as being behind the disclosing of hundreds of thousands of files revealing how Angolan billionaire and former first daughter Isabel dos Santos built her vast business empire, his lawyers said on Monday.
“With this government there will be no new hospital, period” stressed PSD MP Cristóvão Norte today following Health Minister Marta Temido’s visit to the Algarve, during which she announced that in 2021 the government would begin implementing a new Hospital in the region.
“We will do the possible and the impossible so that, in this legislature, the construction of the new Hospital Central do Algarve advances”, said Paulo Morgado, the president of the Regional Health Administration of the Algarve (ARS), yesterday.
The old Fuzeta Lifeguard Station, considered an "architectural landmark of inestimable value" to the town of Fuzeta and the municipality of Olhão will be the target of an “extensive renovation intervention", announced today by the Municipality of Olhão.
Most of Portugal’s labour and employer representatives have today rejected the idea of the European Commission being involved in setting the minimum salary, arguing that this should be the sole responsibility of each European Union member state.
Today it was announced that Portuguese oil and gas company Galp Energia will buy solar power projects from Spain’s ACS in a deal analysts say will make it one of the “leading” solar power producers among the oil majors diversifying into cleaner technologies. The deal envisages total spending of 2.2 billion euros in the next four years, making Galp the leading solar power producer in Iberia.
