The president of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, António Domingues, and six members of his newly formed board have resigned as they remained unwilling to lodge their personal income and asset declarations, as is normal for those in significant positions in State-owned companies.

A formal notice today was received by the Securities Market Commission (CMVM), leaving the Finance Minister’s reputation badly damaged.

Denmark has taken another step in combating excessive food waste.

Following its success in selling expired food items, the supermarket Wefood in Copenhagen has opened a second branch in the capital just nine months after it became Denmark’s first ever food surplus supermarket.

At least a hundred people joined in a protest march between the town hall and the municipal market of Vila Real de Santo António against the decision of the council to privatise waste collection, street cleaning and the domestic supply of water.

The protest was convened by the Local and Regional Administration Workers' Union, Public Companies, Concessionaires and the like (STAL) and brought together union leaders, locals, council workers and workers at the municipal company, Sociedade de Gestão Urbana, which currently runs the services that the council aims to privatise.

The president of Loulé council’s Municipal Assembly decided on Friday November 25th, to suspend the €104 million 2017 budget meeting, due a PSD complaint that certain Socialist Party councillors should not be able to vote as they run municipal companies or have contracts with the council.

The assembly chief, Adriano Pimpão, said "They are members of the socialist party who are councillors and have leading positions in municipal enterprises."

Finally, a road access law is being used to send tax demands to those whose driveways and forecourt parking areas have access to all Estrada Nacional roads, such as the Algarve’s EN125.

Far from being an April 1st prank, the law passed in October 2015 allows Infraestruturas de Portugal to charge people that have property next to an EN category main road who need to use the road to get to and from their house or business premises.

Eleven animals and birds have been poisoned in the Castro Verde ecological protection zone in the lower Alentejo.

Among the birds found dead are endangered species including a rare Iberian imperial eagle and several Kites.

British consumers have rewarded retailers with solid takings on Black Friday, creating another record day for the event.

An overwhelming amount of the action took place online as shoppers looked for bargains on their mobile phones and computers, leaving shops largely free of the unedifying tussles over discounted goods witnessed in earlier years.

Nearly 200,000 ducks have been slaughtered in the Netherlands in an effort to prevent the further spread of bird flu in northern Europe, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs announced on Saturday.

Outbreaks of the highly contagious H5N8 strain of avian flu have been reported to have hit Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Finland in November.