The Portuguese government’s Environment Committee has called for the urgent creation of ... another committee to review a dodgy Spanish nuclear power station just 100 kilometres from the border at Almaraz, to the North East of Caceres.

Portugal says this is "an exceptionally serious situation" at an emergency meeting on Thursday after reports that there are serious doubts over the essential servicing of the power station’s cooling system.

David Santos has decided to stay on as president of the Algarve’s Commission for Coordination and Regional Development (CCDR) despite having been elected as head of the region’s Social Democratic Party.

David Santos was elected president of the Social Democratic Party for the Algarve last Saturday, but refuses to stand down from his well remunerated CCDR role despite the clear conflict of interests.

The GNR and Spain’s Guardia Civil joined forces at the Guadiana river border today in seizing 1,620 kilos of hashish from two drug boats.

The GNR announced the seizure late on Wednesday of a vessel carrying 1,320 kilos of hashish sailing toward the Guadiana river. The crew jumped and swam off to Spain.

The self-styled Islamic State again has threatened Spain and Portugal, this time in a video in which the spokesperson, the son of Portuguese emigrants to Luxembourg, says there is a plan to recapture the Iberian Peninsula. "You will pay dearly" for having driven out the Muslims.
 
The video shows the murder of five people in Iraq and features the terrorist, known as Steve D A making threats about invading the Iberian peninsula.

Portimão councillors and planning experts unanimously have rejected a planning application put forward by Butwell Trading to turn its 200 hectare Quinta da Rocha estate into a tourist complex including two, five star hotels.

Taking a firm environmental and legal standpoint, a committee of Portimão councillors and experts has rejected plans for a Tourism Development Center on the banks of the Ria de Alvor due in part to a history of law-breaking and environmental abuse.

Morocco’s King Mohammed VI switched on the first phase of the world’s largest concentrated solar plant today in the southern town of Ouarzazate. A ceremony was held to officially inaugurate Noor 1 and break ground on the second phase which includes the Noor 2 and 3 projects.

Noor 1 provides 160 megawatts (MW) of electricity for 650,000 local people with power from dawn until three hours after sunset, The Guardian reported.

Danish utility Dong Energy announced Wednesday that it will build the world’s largest offshore wind farm off the UK's Yorkshire coast.

With a 1.2-gigawatt capacity, the Hornsea Project One will be the world’s first offshore wind farm to exceed one gigawatt in capacity, making it the world’s largest by a “considerable margin,” the company said.

Southern European countries remain mired in chronic unemployment eight years after the financial crash.

Labour market data shows that the unemployment rate in the 19-nation eurozone fell to 10.4%.