Morocco has promised Germany that it will accept the return of its citizens whose asylum applications have been rejected.
The German interior minister Thomas de Maiziere flew to Rabat with the precise intention of pressing the Moroccan government into cooperation.
A Portuguese fishing tycoon known as the ‘Codfather’ has been arrested in the US for fraud and will appear in court later this week.
The case involves conspiracy, alleged false accusations, the illegal capture and sale of protected species and a Portuguese 'rags to riches' multi-millionaire.
John Hodgson, the aggressor in a violent incident that left a 23-year-old Portuguese brain dead in 2011, has been sentenced to seven years in jail.
Hodgson again failed to turn up in Portimão court which found him guilty of grievous bodily harm to Ricardo Teixeira who later died.
The eurozone’s drooping economy has brought the area back into deflation.
Prices fell by 0.2% in the year to February, according to a flash estimate from Eurostat.
Appealing a 10-year jail term for qualified fraud and money-laundering, Duarte Lima - the former PSD MP wanted by Interpol - may finally be tried in Portugal for the murder Brazilian authorities claim he committed in 2009.
Lima has been eluding Brazilian justice due to a clause in the constitution which prevents extradition between Portugal and its South American ‘cousin’ for anything other than cases of terrorism or international organised crime.
Qualified murder, as Diário Económico explains today, escapes either classification.
Less than a day after the good bank that emerged from the BES collapse posted historic losses of almost one billion euros, former BES ‘boss of this all’ Ricardo Salgado has come bursting back onto the scene, saying it is time for the Governor of the Bank of Portugal to be hung out to dry.
Latest losses suffered by Novo Banco not only cannot be laid to blame at his door - as they have been - says Salgado, but they show that clients had more trust in his family’s bank than they do in Novo Banco.
It is a swingeing attack by a man who is on €3 million bail on suspicion of all kinds of financial skulduggery, but then he has always proclaimed his innocence - and so far, there are no charges in either the Monte Branco investigation or that into BES in which he is under suspicion.
There is snow on Monchique for the first time since 2006.
The moisture-laden storm from the Atlantic Ocean brough a variety of disruptive weather to the Iberian Peninsula and South of France on Friday and well into Saturday.
An accident left five people injured and blocked a section of the Tavira to Messines road for several hours while police emergency services attended to the victims and then cleared the wreckage.
The injured were transported by the ambulance service to Faro Hospital which has yet to announce the severity of the injuries nor the state of the victims.
