Portugal is aiming to export a record €2 billion in fruit and vegetables in 2020 – most of it to neighbouring Spain which itself is a major fruit producer.
The weather is the key as in the first six months of 2018, exports of fruit and vegetables fell by 1%, year-on-year, to a total of €939 million.
The Algarve train service is slowly committing suicide, says local MP, Cristóvão Norte criticising Comboios de Portugal (CP) for treating people with disrespect.
The PSD Member of Parliament says that "there has been a deterioration in the CP service in the Algarve, particularly over the last year and more sharply since August," which has culminated in the abolition of 36 trains services in last ten days.
An 82-year-old woman has been found dead in the swimming pool of the Memmo Baleeira Hotel, Sítio da Baleeira in Vila do Bispo.
The alert was given at 8.25am on Thursday morning. Vila do Bispo Bombeiros, the emergency medical service and Viatura Médica de Emergência e Reanimação team rushed to the scene.
The head of Altice in Portugal, the company that owns the maligned MEO telecoms brand says that he is negotiating a trading partnership with two national banks so that MEO can expand into the financial services market.
Chief Executive, Alexandre Fonseca, is "actively discussing" the extension of MEO's activities into digital financial services.
There were 12,927 Italians officially registered as living in Portugal at the end of 2017, up 4,407 in a year but the French have outstripped them, with 15,319, outnumbered by the British with 22,431.
Jorge Malheiros, who holds a Doctorate in Human Geography from the University of Lisbon, explains that immigration has been diversifying, not only in terms of nationalities but also the causes behind the big move.
Pedro Marquês revealed today that negotiations are still taking place over a new airport at the Montijo air base, admitting that he did not know when it will be possible to sign an agreement with airports operator, ANA.
The Minister of Planning and Infrastructures said that, "We are negotiating the financial conditions regarding the solution,"
As readers may be aware, in the event of extreme weather conditions which may likely result in rural fires, the government has introduced a SMS texting system, writes David Thomas from Safe Communities Portugal.
This enables people in the affected districts to obtain an alert from ANPC with contact telephone numbers where more information can be found and enquiries directed. This was activated during the Monchique fires in August.
The Army Chief of Staff, General Rovisco Duarte, has resigned over the Tancos stolen weapons affair.
Citing ‘personal reasons’ General Duarte today handed in his resignation to the new Minister of Defence, João Gomes Cravinho.
