The European Commission has sent Portugal letters of formal notice for missing the deadlines to transpose two EU migration laws — the revised Single Permit Directive on residence-and-work permits and the recast Reception Conditions Directive for asylum seekers. Lisbon has two months to respond befor
The European Public Prosecutor's Office has charged 15 defendants — 12 people and three companies — in 'Operation Nexus,' an alleged scheme to rig PRR-funded IT tenders at a public university, costing the EU over €3.5 million. Two are in preventive detention.
Portugal has won a reprieve for its national dish. The European Union's proposed 21st package of sanctions against Russia originally sought a complete ban on imports of Russian cod — the fish that Portugal salts and cures into bacalhau (salted...
Portugal has joined eight other European countries in asking Brussels to keep the escape hatch open on the European Union's new biometric border system. In a joint letter to Magnus Brunner, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Portugal,...
The EU's top court ruled on 9 July that Portugal incorrectly transposed the Industrial Emissions Directive, faulting an out-of-date 'hazardous substances' definition and a 48-hour incident-reporting window that EU law says should be immediate. There is no fine yet, but Portugal must now rewrite part
After €43 billion of post-pandemic home-renovation spending through the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the European Court of Auditors says the EU still cannot prove the money saved much energy. Portugal drew on the same fund for its own €240 million building-efficiency drive.
Grid operators REN and Red Eléctrica switched on a new 400 kV line between Viana do Castelo and Pontevedra, a ~€128 million project that raises Portugal-Spain exchange capacity by about 1,000 MW to 4,200 MW inbound, adding 281 GWh of renewable integration a year.
