Portugal–Spain border disputed between the two countries for two hundred years. A microstate existed previously on the border called Couto Misto. Districts on the Portuguese side of the border from North to South: Provinces on the Spanish side of the border from North to South: Portugal and Spain signed the Schengen Agreement in June 1991 which came into effect on 26 March 1995, making Portugal and Spain part of the Schengen area and thus the border then became an Open border. Portugal has since reintroduced border checks several times along the border with Spain, during the UEFA Euro 2004 championships, during the
CTT Correios de Portugal, S.A. for the Portuguese government to raise money and comply with the European Union requirements for its bailout. In the previous year, 70% of the CTT shares had already been alienated. The CTT group includes the following subsidiaries: CTT Correios de Portugal, S.A. Postal Services of Portugal, plc () is the national postal service of Portugal. The acronym CTT comes from the former name of this department (, meaning "Post, Telegraph and Telephone"), which was also the designation of postal services for the former Portuguese Colonies and still for the Macau Postal Service nowadays. CTT has become a public limited company