Portugal’s parliament has approved the four-year legislative programme proposed by the government, giving Prime Minister Antonio Costa authority to govern in his second term.

The Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) presented on Monday, October 28th, in the Assembly of the Republic, a new proposal which calls for the abolition of tolls on the A22, also called the Via do Infante.

Faro Airport is set to add more flights to its intercontinental flight portfolio next year, as Canadian Airline Air Transat will link Faro to Toronto from January to the end of October 2020.

London-based mining company Savannah Resources revealed on Monday that it is in talks with several major European industrial groups, including carmakers, as it gears up to start commercial lithium production in northern Portugal in 2021.

A concrete structure around 30 meters long, one and a half meters wide, and one and a half meters high has been illegally built in recent days on the coast of Culatra Island, in the Farol region. The ugly construction is in plain sight, just a few steps from the bank of the Ria Formosa and right in the middle of the Natural Park.

The European Parliament tabled a motion earlier this week for a plan to increase search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean. Two of the 290 votes against the motion were from Portuguese MEPs: Nuno Melo, elected by the CDS-PP, and Álvaro Amaro, from the PSD.

Miranda Harris, who in 1983 co-founded, with her husband Peter Harris, the research centre that later gave birth to the environmental association A Rocha, based in Quinta da Rocha, near Ria de Alvor, died Monday the 28^th of October in a tragic car accident in Port Elisabeth, South Africa.

The Government has revealed that they are discussing the possibility of making school aggression a punishable crime. The Assistant Secretary of State and Education, João Costa, revealed this at the TSF Forum, noting that the matter is yet to be looked over by the Ministry of Justice.