10/01/2023

Jihadist killer locked up for 20 years in Switzerland

A Turkish-Swiss dual national who stabbed a passer-by to death in a rare jihadist attack in Switzerland was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in a psychiatric institution. Named only as Omer A., the 29-year-old was found guilty of murder, attempted…
09/01/2023

Madrid wants electricity price cap extended to end 2024

Spain’s government said Monday that it would ask the EU to extend a cap on electricity prices until the end of 2024, while awaiting an overhaul of the bloc’s power market rules. Known as the Iberian exception, the cap resulted…
06/01/2023

Netherlands, Portugal require Covid tests for China arrivals

The Dutch and Portuguese governments on Friday joined a growing number of nations requiring air passengers arriving from China to show a negative Covid-19 test upon entry. More than a dozen countries have slapped fresh travel regulations on travellers from…
04/01/2023

Brazil’s Lula puts US, China among his first official visits

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will make his first official trip to Argentina at the end of January, before visiting the United States, Portugal and China, an official said Tuesday. Lula, as the 77-year-old leader is commonly known,…
29/12/2022

Portugal ministers resign after severance pay controversy

The Portuguese government lost two more ministers on Thursday, two days after another was forced to resign amid a growing controversy over a 500,000-euro ($533,000) severance package from state-owned airline TAP. The opposition has asked for an urgent explanation from…
09/12/2022

Hydrogen pipeline between Spain and France to be ready ‘by 2030’

An ambitious underwater pipeline to bring hydrogen from the Iberian Peninsula to the rest of Europe will be completed by 2030 and cost some 2.5 billion euros, the leaders of France, Spain and Portugal said Friday. The H2Med project comes…
09/12/2022

Portugal parliament votes again in favour of euthanasia

Portugal’s parliament on Friday passed a bill decriminalising euthanasia for the third time, after the two previous attempts were vetoed by conservative president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. The bill, which would decriminalise “medically-assisted death”, was approved thanks to votes from…
09/12/2022

Barcelona-Marseille pipeline: an ambitious but risky project

A planned underwater hydrogen pipeline connecting Barcelona and Marseille is a risky project, but one that is key for the European Union’s energy independence. From the roadmap to the cost and the timeline, here is what we know about this…
09/12/2022

CORRECTED: H2Med pipeline to be finished ‘by 2030’: Macron

An underwater pipeline to bring green hydrogen from the Iberian Peninsula to the rest of Europe will be ready by 2030 and will cost some 2.5 billion euros, France and Spain said Friday. The H2Med, a vast submarine project proposed…
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