Portugal’s Ministry of Internal Affairs justifies the detention in SEF centres of foreign children arriving in the country as 'necessary to prevent trafficking in human beings.'
The 74 children detained last year arrived in Portugal the company of their parents or alone and were detained due to the ‘irregular situation’ of the family.
Portugal's parliament voted in April this year for the recognition of the Armenian Genocide in 1915, perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire.
April 24th is the anniversary of the day that, "the international outbreak of massacres against the Armenian population is marked, since it was at that time in 1915 that the Ottoman authorities arrested and executed 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople under orders of the government of the 'Young Turks'," according to the text of the resolution.
A German tourist, about 50 years old, was rescued from the sea off Bordeira beach in Aljezur but died a few hours after being admitted to Lagos hospital.
According to the captain of the Port of Lagos, Conceição Duarte, the man was rescued from the sea after an alert had been received at 1:30 pm by his family.
Duarte Lima has been jailed and, last Friday, started his six-year sentence for fraud in the Homeland case when he relieved BPN of €17.8 million.
Discounting the time spent in pre-trial detention, Lima will serve three and a half years in prison but could be out on parole in as little as six months.
EDP’s shareholders have blocked a €9 billion bid by China Three Gorges for control of the energy supplier.
US investor Elliott and other shareholders rejected the proposed scrapping of a 25% voting right limit, a condition of China Three Gorges’s (CGT) takeover attempt.
A man has been hit by a train on the Algarve line near Meia Praia, Lagos, in what has been suspected as a suicide.
The alert was given at 15:39 on Thursday afternoon and the Portimão to Lagos line was shut down while an investigation was started.
The Minister of Justice braved the Algarve on Tuesday to inaugurate a new Commercial Court in Lagoa, paid for by the Council’s ratepayers in an attempt at least to to get somnething moving in the region's stalled justice system.
The Minister in charge, Francisca van Dunen, visited the converted school building which soon will function as a Court and noted that it wiill start operating in September, to tie in to something called the ‘judicial calendar.’
Vila Real de Santo António Council has been playing fast and loose with money from the 'Programme for Support to the Local Economy' and is accused of “ruinous management” by simply hiding €5.7 million of associated debts.
According to the CDU coalition party, which has a councillor on the VRSA Council executive and is well place to know the position, the government loan that the Council took on in 2014 in order to ease the interest burden from short-term debts, "was not amortized according to the commitments, revenue objectives and other contractual clauses."
