Sociedade Funefaro Gestão de Crematórios Lda won a tender in 2011 to build a crematorium in Faro but has failed even to start work on the planned facility.
The agreement therefore has lapsed and the Council is entitled to receive compensation of €309,000 while it goes back to square one to see if there is a company that really does want to build a crematorium to serve the expatriate market.
British expats in Spain could forfeit their rights to live and work there if the referendum vote favours leaving the EU, Spain’s acting prime minister has warned.
Mariano Rajoy noted that forgoing free movement rights would be “negative for everyone”.
The Turkish ambassador in Berlin has been recalled following a vote in the German parliament. Ankara also summoned Germany’s charge d’affaires to its foreign ministry.
The overwhelming majority of German MPs believed it was correct to describe the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces a “genocide”.
The Secretary of State for Infrastructure assured the Algarve that the road-works on the EN125 will be suspended, but not until the end of June - when the tourist season will be pretty much in full swing.
The guarantee was given on Wednesday by Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins in Faro at the opening of a long awaited roundabout and link to the north of Faro that allows access to the EN2.
The Church of England could be running out of ministers as it faces up to its predicament of an ageing clergy.
About 25% of its ministers are over the age of 60.
Vila Real de Santo António council is to demand a tourist tax as from January next year, according to the mayor who would have imposed the tax this year, but for the complaints of hoteliers.
Mayor Luís Gomes announced the delay during the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding for the creation of the Municipal Strategic Council for Tourism, a new body which will include representatives from the hotel and real estate sectors as well as from the council.
In an enlightened piece of legislation, as from June 1st the adverts on Portuguese TV stations must be at the same volume as the programme that the advertising break is interrupting.
The strategy of assuming everyone is stone-deaf when the adverts come on has long been criticised by viewers and consumer associations, who have filed thousands of complaints with Communications Regulator to no avail, until now.
The bullfighting debate returns to Portugal’s parliament, rather appropriately on World Children’s Day, as the specific aspect to be debated is the participation of under-18-year-olds in the activity that continues to cause argument across the country.
MPs from People Animals Nature, the Left Bloc and The Greens want to stop under-18-year-olds participating in bullfighting activities.
