The mayor of Calais has said she could block the port if Britain does not help deal with the hundreds of migrants sleeping rough in Calais hoping to gain illegal entry into the UK.
“I can take the decision to block the port. I have ways of exerting pressure,” Nathalie Bouchart said, while recognising that a blockade “would be illegal but I want a strong response today from Britain”.
The government’s long-awaited project to streamline Portugal’s court system is in disarray.
The new 'judicial map' project officially was launched on September 1st amid confusion, an impenetrable IT system and an increasingly angry backlash from those who are meant to be using it.
Portugal’s ‘Banco Português de Investimento’ (BPI) has been fine by a US agency over the bank's deliberate lack of attention to anti money laundering controls.
The financial regulator, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network said the Portuguese bank violated internal control mechanisms for money laundering and that BPI "had enough warnings; there is no excuse.”
A congress of Catholic homosexual associations from 16 countries is to take place in Portimão in October.
Representatives from the 28 associations will attend the first World Congress of Gay Catholic Associations from 6 to 8 October and Pope Francis then will be sent an official letter asking for more inclusion for gay Catholics.
Rioforte, the bankrupt offshoot of the Espírito Santo Group, identified capital needs of approximately €2 billion just weeks before seeking protection from creditors.
This amount was the capital increase that the sole shareholder Espírito Santo International authorised in early July when attempting to sell shares to new investors.
The Authority for Food and Economic Safety (ASAE) has investigated the number of illegal taxis operating in the Algarve, with little success.
ASAE conducted an inspection in July across the Algarve to estimate the number of illegal taxis taking tourists to and from Faro airport but found only four that did not have the correct documentation.
Lagoa council’s 35th annual country fair, Fatacil, saw the number of those that paid for entry “up by 50%” according to the organiser which by its own admission was guessing at many of the numbers.
The end-of-August fair attracted “close to 150,000 visitors” and the number of those actually paying to get in was “up by more than 50% compared to last year."
The Conservatives have pledged to enfranchise all British expats, but only if they win the next general election in May.
The manifesto commitment means that the notorious 15-year rule would be scrapped which prevents many British expats from voting in British general elections, allowing them instead to vote for life.
