The number of people registered this July at employment centres fell by 10.1% compared to July last year, and decreased by 0.3% since June, to a total 297,000 unemployed, according to data from the Institute of Employment and Vocational Training (IEFP).
The Canadian company, which opened its medical cannabis production plant in Cantanhede in the Coimbra district this year, and recently leased 20 hectares of production land in Reguengos de Monsaraz, near Évora, has signed an initial supply contract of 3.3 million dollars (approximately three million euros) with Cannamedical Pharma to increase the distribution of medical cannabis products to German patients.
The Portuguese economy is often highly synchronized with the German economy. Generally speaking, whenever there is a recession in Germany, a scenario that is at the moment increasingly likely, the waves of impact end up being felt in Portugal, sooner or later, because of the large investments Germans have in the national economy, and via exports.
Ryanair does not expect "significant disruption" as a result of the strike called by the National Civil Aviation Flight Personnel Union (SNPVAC), but has revealed that it can’t "rule out some delays" or changes in flights.
Promoting sustainable use of water is the main objective of the new plan that has been spawned by the municipal company Inframoura.
Portugal has scrambled to find solutions to wildfires that have ravaged the country in recent years. It has tested various high-tech tools and grappled with long-term policy changes to improve land management that could prevent them. But an unforeseen possible solution is the goat.
17 hotels and tourist resorts, and four Algarve golf courses, as well as the Algarve Tourism Region, have been nominated for categories in the Publituris Portugal Travel Awards 2019, the results of which will be announced on 17th of September in Cascais.
More than 5,600 people have already signed a public petition calling for intervention from the Government to prevent the installation of a museum dedicated to the former dictatorship of the Estado Novo and its leader, Salazar, in Santa Comba Dão, Viseu.
