The pretender to the Portuguese throne has sent a message to the people marking December 1st, the date that commemorates the Restoration of the Independence of Portugal.*
The would-be king Duarte Pio, the Duke of Bragança, today said there should be a cultural revolution as the Portuguese people are suffering from poor leadership.
The successful and much loved Via Algarviana walking route will have no money and no management as from March 2015 so will deteriorate and the time, effort and money employed to set up this award winning route will have been wasted,
There is no maintenance for the project and no future management model, according to the Via Algarviana coordinator Anabela Santos who explained that in March the EU funds which allowed for the route’s implementation, maintenance and promotion, run out.
Immigration put to the vote in Switzerland found that the Swiss prefer to keep their doors open to new migrants.
Three-quarters of voters (74.1%) said no to imposing a cap on immigration, cutting numbers from 80,000 a year to just 16,000.
The group which spearheaded the referendum, Ecopop, claimed that Switzerland did not have sufficient resources to support mass immigration and that the country was being “buried under concrete” as a result.
The Minister of Agriculture, Assunção Cristas applauds the increase in the number of young farmers in the Algarve who had submitted projects under the Rural Development Programme.
In the year to July there have been 978 agricultural projects approved, 427 from young farmers representing 44% of the total, according to the Regional Directorate of Agriculture and Fisheries in the Algarve.
Between 10,000 and 13,000 people in the UK are victims of slavery.
The analysis is the first time the Home Office has put out an official estimate of the scale of the situation.
The German carrier Lufthansa will continue its strike action, going out on Monday and Tuesday.
This will make the ninth walkout for Europe’s biggest airline since April.
Former politician turned criminal, Duarte Lima has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for aggravated fraud and money laundering.
The summary from the group of judges, led by Filipa Valentim, took four hours and ends the long-running and intricate ‘Operation Homeland’ fraud case.
Two directors of BES, who moved across to Novo Banco when the failed bank was divided, have been made arguidos as a result of information obtained during Thursday’s widespread searches of homes and business premises in the Espírito Santo corruption and money laundering case.
Former BES boss Ricardo Salgado had his Cascais luxury home searched along with 33 other private properties and six offices of companies in the financial sector.
