Maria Cavaco Silva, the wife of Portugal's Head of State, today said that Portugal will survive despite its difficulties.
“With plenty of sacrifice and hope, the Portuguese will resolve the crisis,” according to Portugal’s first lady Maria Cavaco Silva who graciously was opening the grounds of her husband’s taxpayer funded official residence.
Portugal's Court of Auditors has stated that the government has been overstating the results of state reforms and that 'intent has been confused with results.'
Regarding the reduction in the number of state workers, there are signs that show that the recent reforms actually have increased the number of workers employed by the state in some areas where reductions have been claimed.
An alert of the tragic accident was given by a friend who was at Praia do Meco near Sesimbra with his friends and who witnessed them being swept away by a freak wave.
The accident occurred at around 01.00 on Sunday morning.
Friends of the Romanian who died in EN125 have appealed to the online community for help to repatriate the body of Emanuela Ivan, who along with her 3 year old daughter was seriously injured in the car crash on Sunday the 8th of December on the EN125 in Benfarras
Emanuela died in hospital after having been in a coma for five days.
The banker Ricardo Oliveira, one of the defendants in the ongoing BPN corruption case, has been badly injured following a fire at his villa in Vale de Lobo, Algarve.
The fire started when Oliveira tried to light a fire using liquid fuel. The product exploded and caused a fire, setting light to Oliveira in the process. Am emergency call was received by firefighters around 20.00 on Saturday.
A Portuguese man was sentenced on Thursday to two years in prison by a court in Nottingham, England, due to his participation in a marriage of convenience with a Zambian woman.
The jury did not believe a word of the testimony of Nuno Moreira, 29, and Leya Mtonga, 39, that the October 22nd ceremony this year at a registry office was genuine and decreed that both were guilty of conspiracy to facilitate immigration illegal.
A Belgian expat father is alleged to have snatched his young daughter away from her British mother this week in Alicante, Spain.
Kyshan Van Der Zanden, 22, told his partner, British Gemma Mountney, 21, that he was taking his daughter to nursery. He also ensured that she was out of the house for much of the day having given her shopping vouchers and a visit to the spa.
The cost of renting property in the UK has gone up twice as fast as the cost of a mortgage, official figures suggest.
The average monthly spend on rent will shortly overtake the average mortgage cost.
