The Council of Ministers today approved a new plan with the snappy title of ‘Vem,’ an acronym for Valorização do Empreendedorismo Emigrante (Enhancement of Immigrant Entrepreneurship.)
This remarkably late-in-the-day, pre-election initiative aims to help immigrants and those of Portuguese descent who want to come to, or return to, Portugal.
Victims of Spanish property swindles have been given some recognition when an amendment to Spain’s penal code means they should be able to receive compensation for property scheduled for demolition.
Judges have been given the authority to postpone demolition orders until compensation has been paid to the owner, who must be able to demonstrate that the property was purchased in good faith.
Ryanair is to start the first commercial flights from Spain’s ‘ghost airport’, Castellón.
The airport opened in 2011, but in the intervening four years it only saw its first flight departure in January this year when the Villareal football team left on a charter flight for a game in San Sebastián in the north.
The spanking new version of the Citizens’ Portal (Portal do Cidadão) was launched yesterday morning amid much press attention but has failed to function.
In the first 24 hours operation the service was taken offline, then was activated again only to be pulled yet again due to ‘operational problems.’
The Mayor of Cascais promises to be 'ruthless' if there is confirmation that illegal licences were given to ministers in respect of work done on their homes.
Carlos Carreiras was referring to suspicions of corruption that have been rumbling on, about work done at the homes of Economy Minister Pires de Lima and Finance Minister Maria Luís Albuquerque, both Cascais residents.
The head of Portugal's Tax Workers Union said today that there is a VIP taxpayers list, a list that the Government and the Tax Authority denies exists and are prepared to go to court to refute the allegation that a two tier taxpayer system is in operation.
Today’s edition of Visão writes that the Secretary of State for Fiscal Affairs, Paul Nuncio, has drawn up a list of VIP taxpayers taken from media, politics, finance and business whose tax records when accessed by staff trigger an alert to show who has been looking.
Portugal's Council of Ministers today approved a bill to establish a register of those convicted of paedophile offences. This now will go to parliament for approval but the long-awaited clause that allows parents easy access to the list is not present.
According to Secretary of State for Justice, Antonio Moura Costa, it is proposed that parents can ask their local police, "on the basis of concrete situations," whether a person is on the list to which the police will have online access, as will the courts, the probation services and child protection services.
The Algarve Tourism Board was founded on March 18th 1970, when Salazar ruled the country with a fiscal and political rod of iron, Faro airport had been open for less than five years (pictured), and actor Lee Marvin had a surprise No.1 with ‘Wand’rin’ Star’ which had just knocked ‘Bridge over Troubled Water’ by Simon and Garfunkel into second place.
Technology and music have changed rather since the early '70s and the tourist board is launching a 45th anniversary campaign on Facebook to promote the region and its own magic powers of longevity through periods of management upheaval and instability.
