The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has slightly lowered world economic growth for this year, now pointing to 5.7% and improving forecasts for 2022, with an estimate of 4.5%.
Budget airline, EasyJet, announced yesterday that it will place a new plane at Faro airport for the summer of 2022, creating around 30 direct jobs in the Algarve, in addition to two planes in Malaga and two in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Located in the municipality of Alcoutim, the Solara4 photovoltaic plant has already received the operating license from the General Directorate of Energy and Geology (DGEG) and will be the largest unsubsidised plant in Europe, according to a statement released this Sunday by the organisation.
Mandatory inspection of motorcycles over 125cc will start in January 2022, when the deadline for changing European legislation in Portugal expires, almost 10 years after the measure was approved by the government.
The Prime Minister, Antonio Costa, praised the population's adherence to vaccination, noting that Portugal is one of the countries in the world with the highest immunisation rate, but stressed that the rules for individual protection against Covid-19 must be maintained.
Paula Fatri and her 12-year-old daughter have been on the run for over a month. The father wants Vera to be vaccinated against Covid-19, the mother and daughter do not want to, so they went underground.
The Ministry of Environment and Climate Action yesterday announced a funding of 14 million Euros to improve the water supply in the Algarve.
The European service Copernicus, which monitors the atmosphere, announced today that the size of the hole in the ozone layer in the southern hemisphere has surpassed the size of Antarctica, a continent of around 14 million square kilometres.
