Portugal’s government is being as slack as usual by correcting the road tax (IUC) payable on imported cars.
The reduction, forced by Brussels, will come into play in 2020 with thousands of owners still paying road tax as if their imported cars were new at the time of importation.
A 37-year-old woman was killed this morning, May 2nd, at her home in Vila Real de Santo António.
The woman's body later was taken from her apartment and transported by ambulance to the Medical-Legal Office of Faro.
Algarve MP, Cristóvão Norte, during a hearing with Minister Pedro Nuno Santos at Parliament’s Economic Committee, raised the issue of the next ten years of investment for the Algarve.
Regarding the lack of investment in the region, Norte said that the 2030 national investment plan is a good example.
The results of the Flag Association of Europe have been released - and the Algarve's beaches have been the main feature in Portugal's line-up.
Portugal has 352 Blue Flag beaches for 2019. The challenge this year, under the Blue Flag programme is to continue to raise awareness of the fact that rubbish in the sea and on beaches originates from human activity on land with rivers carrying waste into the sea.
The old Cooperativa Agrícola de Santa Catarina da Fonte do Bispo, Tavira, is to be converted into Museum Zero, with its promoters erroneously claiming this will represent "a first for digital art in Europe."
The inspiration behind the avant garde project is Paulo Teixeira Pinto, a former president of Banco Comercial Português (Millennium), an artist and art collector, who lives locally.
Portugal became the latest EU nation to affirm its inclination towards allowing Huawei and other Chinese telecoms service providers to set-up the 5G network infrastructure in a move that is oblivious to U.S. calls against the action.
Speaking at a diplomatic briefing, Portugal’s Foreign Affairs Minister – Augusto Santos Silva, asserted Lisbon’s pro-Chinese 5G stance saying; “the European Union (EU) is to define one common position on the 5G mobile network without excluding any company, from any country”.
Next Sunday, May 5, is Mother's Day and also the day of Mãe Soberana and the feast of Nossa Senhora da Piedade (our Lady of Mercy) in Loulé.
The celebration, promoted as, "the greatest religious festival south of Fatima," will see thousands of visitors descend on the city and its dome shaped church on the hill to its west.
In Portugal, the 1 May celebration ("Primeiro de Maio") was harshly repressed during the right-wing dictatorship of António de Oliveira Salazar and Marcelo Caetano.
Since the Carnation Revolution on 25 April 1974, Worker's Day (Dia do Trabalhador) is celebrated by unions but as well by several leftist political parties with parades and demonstrations.
