Ireland is poised to exit its EU-IMF bailout programme, but plans to keep its austerity measures in place, according to analysts.

Consumer credit, mortgages and deposit accounts are the areas that have received the most complaints by customers so far this year.

Portugal’s Bar Association has expelled the grand total of 13 lawyers in the past 60 months, mainly for fraud and for stealing client funds.

The Association for the Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR) commented today that a revised plan is needed to prevent a further rise in the suicide rate among its members.

Industrial production in Portugal rose 8% in August from the July figure, the highest increase in Europe, according to Eurostat.

Chinese companies have started making direct approaches to British farmers asking to buy millions of litres of milk.  China is the world’s largest consumer of milk.

The Director of Public Prosecutions in the UK has underscored the need to keep the Human Rights Act without changing it.

The British state pension is set to rise by 2.5% next year, the minimum possible under a new scheme.