Following the devastating wildfires of 2017, PS Socialists pledged to limit the planting of fire-spreading eucalyptus. But media reports have revealed there are licences still in place allowing for the planting of “even more” of these trees until the end of 2019.
This is because the licences were obtained under a law that only ‘fell’ on December 31, 2017 and gave pulp producers two years of planting authorisation.
With the defeat of yet another bill designed to do away with ‘Golden’ residency visas, Transparency International Portugal has called on the government to release information on its “controversial residency-by-investment programme”.
The reasons are multiple but focused principally on what the NGO calls “the risks of corruption and money laundering associated with the scheme”.
Extraordinary images have been circulating this week of the “Roumania”, a British steam ship that went down near Foz de Arelho (Caldas da Rainha) after hitting a sandbank over 126 years ago.
The 3,387-ton wreck has lain, covered by sand, just a few metres from the beach ever since.
Faro Police detained a 65-year-old conman yesterday, on suspicion of running a real estate scam and using false bank documents.
The man already has a criminal record in Canada and now has had the experience of an appearance in front of magistrates in Faro Court.
Police investigators are on the anti-oil trail, with searches last Wednesday at the offices of the National Entity for the Fuel Market (ENMC) and the Directorate General of Energy and Geology (DGEG).
The reason is that the environmental association, ASMAA, lodged a complaint nearly a year ago about the illegality of the oil drilling concessions and licences covering vast areas off the Portuguese coast.
The Communist Party has reviewed the sad state of the Guarda Nacional Republicana's (GNR) vehicles, concluding that due to high mileage and age, "a considerable part of the fleet is inoperative."
New vehicles are slow to be issued and the old ones eventually give up the ghost, creating a problem that is getting worse, not better with a high percentage of the 5,600 vehicle fleet unable to be used.
On January 9th, Portugal’s Immigration and Borders Service (SEF) started issuing the new 'Permanent Residence Certificate of the European Union.'
This new card is identical to the national Citizen's Card in format, material and contents which contains the physical security data internationally recommended for this type of document.
Further to the notification that ‘Bank balances of €50k or more to be reported to the Tax Authority’ (January 11, 2019), HERE, questions have been raised and answered to clarify some of the implications of the new protocol agreed by Portugal’s government.
What information do banks have to send?
Financial institutions are obliged to report to the Treasury the amounts that a taxpayer has in a bank account or, if they have more than one account at the same bank, how much is in the various accounts that in their name.
