The commercial director of Bonús Seguros (insurance company) offering Covid-oriented travel cover for foreigners visiting Portugal this summer says his company has been ‘absolutely overwhelmed’ by demand from the UK.
Forestry businesses are demanding “solutions” following over a week of successive government ‘fire alerts’ which have stopped them all working.
ANEFA, the national association of businesses working in forestry, agriculture and the environment, says authorities are using the alerts – announced through the press and via a campaign of mass text messaging – as a form of “legal subterfuge” to avoid facing up to their own responsibilities.
Portugal is set to present a report on the epidemiological situation of the country based on the criteria used by the United Kingdom to judge whether a country is deemed safe for travel, to try to change the travel restrictions with the UK caused by the ongoing pandemic, announced the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs today.
The PAN political party presented yesterday, August 5, at an Albufeira Municipal Assembly session, a recommendation aimed at the acquisition and conversion of the region’s last bullring into a multi-purpose space with the capacity to create 40 housing units at a controlled cost.
The Judiciary Police (PJ ) have finally arrested a 29-year-old man suspected of having started more than 30 fires in the Sobrado, Valongo, and Baltar, Paredes areas of Northern Portugal.
Portugal’s Azores Islands, some 1,400 km from the Portuguese mainland, breached the national constitution by forcing air passengers to the popular tourist destination to quarantine for 14 days, the Constitutional Court has ruled this week.
More people dropped out of Portugal’s workforce in the three months through June amid the government’s confinement measures aimed at controlling the coronavirus outbreak.
The drawing up of a specific plan to support the Algarve is a "national priority", defended the President of the Republic at the end of last week, following a meeting with business associations based in the region in Tavira.
