Operation Lex has been spread across Portugal’s media in the past 48 hours, involving the arrest of prominent figures in the football and legal world.
On November 25th, 2016 the business newspaper Vida Económica published a column with the title above. Last week four people died on the EN125, many more were seriously injured, writes Jack Soifer.
Miguel Frasquilho, facing deep concerns as his suitability to chair TAP after receiving funds from an Espírito Santo Group offshore slush fund, said today that he is "deeply calm" with his re-election to the boardroom.
Portugal’s unemployment rate at the end of 2017, compared to the end of the previous year, fell from 10.2% to 7.8%, the third largest reduction in the EU, according to data revealed by Eurostat.
The Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) has confirmed that the pulp mills above the Abrantes dam on the river Tagus have been responsible for the pollution that a week ago, carpeted the river in a layer of foam.
The folly of getting used to the current mild weather and expecting it to last until Spring, is about to be exposed as a blast of cold air is due to sweep across Portugal from Thursday lunchtime, sending daytime temperatures into low single figures across most of the country, except in the Algarve.
The Judicial Police today arrested 17 people involved in the theft State funds from the Institute of Social Security. 
The Government purchased six second-hand Kamov helicopters in 2006/07, all of which now are grounded, to the distress of those running the National Institute of Emergency Medicine and the National Civil Protection Authority.
