Maria I of Portugal forced Portugal to cede Olivença and other border towns to Spain. (This cession is not recognized by the present Portuguese government, and the country officially considers those territories still to be Portuguese possessions.) On September 29, 1801 John VI signed the Treaty of Madrid (1801), ceding half of Guyana to France, which became French Guiana. The refusal of the Portuguese government to join the French-sponsored Continental Blockade against Britain culminated in the late 1807 Franco-Spanish invasion of Portugal led by General Junot. The ultimate Napoleonic plan for Portugal was to split it into three sections. The northern parts of Portugal,
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