The Secretary of State for Energy today claimed that he knew nothing about the decision of the Loulé Administrative Court that halts exploratory oil drilling off Aljezur.
"The court legitimately made a decision that, I as a Secretary of State and also the Ministry of Economy did not know about, we are not part of the decision," said Jorge Seguro Sanches, speaking to incredulous journalists in Lisbon.
In the first six months of this year, 16 women have been murdered after domestic violence became lethal.
The danger for women rises in the hot summer months of July, August and September with more women being attacked and murdered in their homes by a boyfriend, a partner or a former partner.
In May 2018, families from Portugal, Germany, France, Italy, Romania, Kenya, Fiji and an association in Sweden, sued the European Parliament and European Council for what they saw as an inadequate climate target that has been set for 2030.
The European General Court has accepted the case and a notice has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
The Loulé Administrative Court has issued a ruling today, suspending the Galp-ENI consortium’s TUPEM licence which now is invalid.
The 'Título de Utilização Privativa do Espaço Marítimo' licence was challenged by the anti-oil, Platform for an Algarve Free of Petroleum (PALP), which had asserted that the oil and gas drilling licence issued to Galp-ENI was invalid and that it should not be allowed to drill a test well in the ocean floor off Aljezur.
It’s large trebles all round in the EDP boardroom after the Energy Services Regulatory Authority ‘recalculated’ the €7.5 million fine it had issued in 2015 and came up with a more than generous 75% discount.
EDP Comercial already has paid the settlement of €950,000. The company was fined for the way in which it denied its poorest customers the ‘social tariff’ rate to which they were due. It has yet to compensate those of its customers who should have been on the low-rate social tariff but were charged the full rate.
Owners of Tourist Rental properties have been rushing to register under the current Alojamento Local scheme before the new rules come into force.
The President already has signed off the amendments to the AL laws, despite serious reservations, which will come into effect in October this year.
A report in the Financial Times indicates that Brussels is fed up with certain of its member countries handing out Golden Visas to non-EU nationals - it fears that the current vetting procedures are inadequate to stop money laundering.
Dirty money from Russia is under the spotlight, especially as it heads to EU states where money can buy citizenship and can enable free Schengen area travel.
Fewer Portuguese are holidaying in the Algarve, opting instead for cheaper destinations including Tunisia, Morocco and Cape Verde.
The percentage of nationals heading south to the Algarve has dropped a full 5% from last year but the region is still the top destination within Portugal, followed by the currently pristine Alentejo coast (up 9%) and the northwestern coast.
