The link goes ahead only with private or European money, Maria da Graça Carvalho said on Friday, calling it still a conversation. The justification has quietly moved from exporting clean power to restarting the grid alone after an outage.
Maria da Graça Carvalho told Lusa on Friday that the restructuring is practically ready and heading for the Council of Ministers. The first concrete detail points one way: decision-making moves from the regional offices to the centre.
Pedro Duarte told reporters on Friday that the builder of the second phase has missed its deadlines and has not met its obligations. Metro do Porto, which is the client, has not answered questions about the new date or about money beyond the recovery plan.
The agency moved the long-term ratings up a notch on Friday evening and reset the outlook to Stable from Positive. Its own regression model produced the higher score and the committee applied no adjustment. Debt is forecast at 87 percent of GDP this year.
Eduardo Vitor Rodrigues, mayor of Vila Nova de Gaia for twelve years, was cleared of malfeasance and misappropriation over two municipally funded trips in 2015 and 2016 worth 15,800 euros. The judge called his choices censurable, then called them political.
