Last year witnessed a dramatic decrease in the number of migrants who reached Germany.
From nearly 900,000 in 2015, the number tumbled to 280,000 in 2016, according to statistics released by the country’s Interior Ministry this week.This represents a drop of 70%.
Just ten kilometres from the controversial Quinta da Ombria development (pictured) in the countryside to the north of Loulé lies another ‘me too’ tourism project, also with Project of National Importance status.
Vale do Freixo and Quinta da Ombria are ‘tourist village, hotel plus golf course’ style projects that are more in tune with the Algarve’s existing coastal tourist offerings than in the treasured and ecologically sensitive barrocal where 'nature tourism' is the preferred option.
French security forces believe that between January and June last year, 26 smuggling trips were made in transport arranged by a small family firm which, over the whole year, would have shipped around 500 migrants across Europe, mainly from France to Portugal.
Last weekend, four people were detained in the Paris region for "helping the entry, movement and irregular stay of a foreigner in France."
The governments of Portugal and Spain have announced that ministers will meet on Thursday, January 12th, in Madrid after Lisbon received assurances from Spain that the decision to build a nuclear waste dump at Almaraz "had not been finalised."
This assurance has enabled Environment Minister, João Pedro Matos Fernandes, to make the trip to Madrid to meet with the Spanish ministers of the Environment and Energy.
The Association of Commerce and Services of the Algarve Region (ACRAL) has begun a series of meetings with regional politicians to complain about the EN125, IKEA and the dire state of the region’s high streets.
The president of the association, Álvaro Viegas, has already talked to the Portuguese Communist Party, led by Paulo Sá, and the Social Democratic Party’s José Carlos Barros and Cristóvão Norte.
For three days in March, the public will be able to cross the Guadiana River on foot from Portugal's Alcoutim to Spain's San Lúcar on the opposite bank.
The council is having the bridge installed as part of the Festival of Contraband - trafficking in the Arts of the Guadiana (Festival do Contrabando – Tráfico de Artes do Guadiana) on March 24th to the 26th.
A cold front is due to affect Portugal on Thursday for at least a week with plunging temperatures reaching zero in parts of the country.
A polar air mass sweeping down from Scandinavia is freezing areas not used to being frozen, such as southern Italy and Greece, with snow and ice settling through much of Europe.
ZERO, the Association for a Sustainable Terrestrial System, is one of the organisations that forms part of the Iberian Antinuclear Movement, which has called for strong support of the demonstration taking place on Thursday, January 12, at 6:00 pm, in front of the Spanish Consulate in Lisbon, Avenida da Liberdade, calling for the closure of the Almaraz nuclear power station.
There are four reasons that ZERO considers justification for the closure of the Almaraz plant, and the viability of a facility for the temporary storage of nuclear waste in an area adjacent to this facility:
