Italy has demurred from submitting any candidates this year for Unesco World Heritage consideration.

It believes it is time for other countries to catch up.

The Uber transport service, so feared by Lisbon and Oporto’s taxi drivers when looking at their financial futures, has arrived in the Algarve and officially is operating as from Tuesday 7th June.

The app-based service will stay local during its test phase aims to take full advantage of those wishing to travel in the Faro, Vilamoura and Albufeira areas but there has been interferece from the government which managed to suspend the website on launch. http://uberportugal.pt/ now is working

Paulo Portas,  Minister of Foreign Affairs and then Deputy Prime Minister in the Pedro Passos Coelho coalition government, is to be a consultant with Mota-Engil, concentrating on developing the company’s Latin American businesses.

Mota-Engil employs over 28,000 people in diverse areas including civil engineering, port operations, waste, water, and logistics, many of which are based overseas.

The number of deaths and serious injuries suffered in accidents on the Algarve’s roads was lower for the period Jan 1st to the end of May 2016 than in the past two years.

The Jan 1st to May 31st figures show the number of accidents increased compared to the same periods in 2015 and 2014 but that deaths were down.

Those whose savings were wiped out or severely depleted in the disastrous Banif ‘rescue’ are to sue both the Bank of Portugal and the Stock Market Commission.

The Defense Association of Injured Parties is already taking action against TVi and the European Union.

Portugal’s government has handed in its cunning plan to throw more taxpayers’ money at ailing bank Caixa Geral de Depósitos.

Brussels, despite its obsessive insistence that Portugal hits the financial targets set for the year, it has even asked for a stand-by Plan B in case things get tight - has read the plan and has given the go-ahead for the €4 billion refinancing as long as this State aid is provided in the same way as would be provided by a private investor, i.e. it is not categorised as ‘State aid’ in the national accounts.

EU nations have refused to agree to a limited extension for using the pesticide glyphosate found in Monsanto’s Roundup and other weedkilling products.

Earlier this year a proposal to renew the licence in the EU for glyphosate for as many as 15 years did not garner sufficient support on two separate occasions.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out further after the German parliament decided overwhelmingly that the Ottoman Empire was responsible for genocide of Armenians.

Turkish administrations have consistently denied the 1915-1916 massacres amounted to genocide.