Algarve MP Cristóvão Norte has denounced the commercial behaviour of airports operator ANA in its dealings with car rental companies.
Norte, an Algarve PSD MP, said today that the "predatory practices" of ANA against rent-a-car companies constitute an "abuse of its dominance."
A lawyer who fought for a family following a crash in Portugal says the incident turned their lives upside down.
Mark Lee, from law firm Penningtons Manches, spoke after June Vann, 60, and her family won their fight to prove a driver was solely responsible for the crash.
Faro council has called for urgent intervention over the demolition of part of a tower attached to Faro’s city wall. Faro council has been following the situation for some time and finally has called for "the urgent reconstruction of the tower.”
According to Faro’s socialist councillors, part of the wall, "a kind of internal turret,” was demolished by the owners of two dilapidated buildings in Faro old town, to whom the council granted a license for cleaning and removal of debris.
Criminal gangs are using kidnap and torture to prey upon African immigrants in the UK.
Organised gangsters are demanding up to £20,000 from some immigrants to release relatives they have taken hostage in the immigrant’s country of origin, according to the European crime intelligence agency Europol.
The concerned chairman of Portugal’s Medical Council, José Manuel Silva, has voiced his concern at the "growing emigration" of young medical specialists, including Doctors.
"There are more and more doctors emigrating. Doctors are graduating in Portugal and then migrating to central and northern Europe," said Silva as he chatted to press after a meeting with the Head of State.
Last year the Treasury made attachment of wages orders, 1,457 per day, totaling more than 532,000. The Portuguese tax men sent out over nine million emails to taxpayers with tax debts, and seized wages, bank accounts and any other financial products it could uncover.
The total number of actions by the state against its citizens has more than doubled since 2011 with 611,941 cases of asset seizure, 576,751 bank accounts raided, plus the daily toll of wages orders.
Scientists in Portugal have identified what is now thought to be Europe’s largest predator as fossilised remains including bones, eggs and even embryos, have been uncovered from a cliff at Praia da Vermelha north of Lisbon.
The 10 metre animal, Torvosaurus Gurneyi, was a two-legged carnivore with blade-like teeth 10 centimetres in length and lived in the Jurassic period around 150 million years ago.
The Secretary of State for Transport, Sérgio Monteiro, ‘should apologise’ to the Algarve for threatening that there will be no money to fully electrify and upgrade the Algarve railway system if the State has to ‘rescue’ the halted development and safety work on the EN 125, according to the ' Salvar Faro, com o Coração’ (Save Faro with a Heart) movement, which claims that the Secretary of State’s position "offended the Algarve and that this is not to be tolerated."
