Portugal’s Attorney General, Joana Marques Vidal, said today that the archiving of the investigation in the Mário Centeno ‘tickets for tax relief’ case, followed "the usual procedure."
Portugal’s banks are charging their customers a total of €5 million a day in account fees.
Loulé council at last has the go-ahead to complete the northern bypass from the Querença roundabout, next to the sports hall, to join up with the road near the São Brás de Alportel roundabout to the east.
The Portuguese Sea Minister, Ana Paula Vitorino, said that growth at Portimão’s cruise terminal was 53% higher than last year as the city welcomed 71 cruise ships and around 30,000 passengers.
Four Algarve MPs from the ruling Socialist Party are recommending the classification and preservation of wetlands in the region.
In a seismic shift in policy, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is selling its Partex oil and gas interests and is to invest in sustainable energy, "in line with the international movement followed by other foundations.”
The Foundation owns 100% of Partex and is "currently in the process of negotiations with an interested group," to sell the oil company.
The Bank of Portugal has decided that Portugal’s lenders have been advancing too much money to the nation’s borrowers and is imposing restrictions to limit mortgages and personal credit.
Ria Formosa islanders in receipt of a new round of demolition orders, authorised by an out-of-touch and duplicitous Ministry of the Environment, are going back to court to tackle the insistence by the State that their houses should not be there.
