Portugal’s Minister for the Environment and Energy Transition, João Pedro Matos Fernandes, said at the Madrid energy transition conference (HERE) that Portugal's emphasis will be on solar power in order to reach the goal of 47% of energy from renewables by 2030.
According to the Ministry today, the clearing of energy production licenses will be finalised "in the short term" with 20 solar plants capable of starting in 2019.
Portugal’s Minister of Finance said on Thursday that the Government has been following the situation at Caixa Geral de Depósitos, stating to parliament that it is totally false to say otherwise.
"It was not just today that this Government gave instructions to Caixa's directors to carry out a special audit of the bank’s administration between 2000 and 2015. We have done what no other government had done," Centeno said, during an urgent parliamentary debate requested by the CDS.
The EY audit of the 'dark years' at Caixa Geral de Depósitos, released yesterday, was only a preliminary one, claims the Chairperson of the Budget and Finance Committee, who says the final report will be "manifestly different."
Teresa Leal Coelho’s claim that the final audit report will be different, raises questions as to the Committee’s work and its influence over EY’s independent submission.
The trial has started and the prosecution case finalised against the Portimão Councillor who swallowed the evidence rather than allow police investigators to know the names and amounts written on a sheet of paper.
The former mayor of the city, Luís Carito, used a bizarre plan to create a Portuguese Hollywood to enrich himself and colleagues while watching the Council run up debts of €180 million on this and other failed projects.
The European Commission has told EU states to tighten checks on Golden Visa applicants and will closely be monitoring governments that offer the schemes to non-EU nationals who may use the system for tax evasion and money-laundering.
EU citizenship gives an individual free movement in most of the EU, easy access to the single market and other rights and with 20 countries involved, wealthy foreigners are able to buy their way into residency and unrestricted Schengen area travel, laying the foundations for the granting of passports.
With government pledges floating in the waters of political duplicity, an improved cruise ship terminal and deeper harbour conditions in Portimão remain on the drawing board.
Fewer cruise ships docked in Portimão last year but those that did were larger, carrying more passengers - a 23% increase in numbers.
The old Lagoa Council city hall is to become a museum after ratepayers funded a €123,000 work programme to remove the tiled roof and replace it with one made of sandwich panels in a lacquered steel finish.
The property once was a place of worship, then a prison, before becoming the headquarters of the Council and latterly, overspill office space for some Council services.
A 53-year-old man, suspected of having committed 13 child sexual abuse offences in the Tavira area, is to be tried.
In addition to crimes of sexual abuse, the alleged pedophile, who has been in pre-trial detention since July last year, also has been charged with five counts of child pornography.
