NORWAY FINLAND

Energy plans

OLEG FOLKIN claims his company, Tornado Logistics, based in Finland, has devised technology that will revolutionise the energy sector. He claims the device can produce more power than it consumes, creating free and clean energy. According to Fokin, if the device is successful, it will make Elon Musk’s Teslas useless.

Nato Hq

NATO’S newest member, Finland, is considering a bid to become the northern headquarters for the military alliance, Pekka Toveri, a Finnish member of Parliament, who argues the case for NATO’s northern base to be in Finland. He states it would boost Finland’s security and influence within the Alliance.

Animal abuse

WITH strikes in the sector due this week, the FNAM doctors’ union in Portugal called the latest government proposal 'a completely medieval model’. The latest 20 per cent supplement obliges doctors to work more than twice as many hours a year they claim. As a result, doctors could end up working an extra 350 hours per year.

THE trial of the famed Portuguese picador João Moura is scheduled for September 18. Moura is accused by the Public Ministry (MP) of a total of 18 crimes, 17 of which are for the mistreatment of companion animals. The other is a charge of aggravated mistreatment of companion animals, for incidents that allegedly occurred on the 59-year-old picador's property in Monforte.