The owner of a drone that caused the diversion of aircraft from Lisbon airport has been fined €3,900.

The incident occurred on August 20, 2018 and "led to a shutdown of the operation for eight minutes due to the closure of air traffic."

Two Portuguese property development companies and a Spanish hospitality company have announced a project to construct three hotels with a total of 411 rooms in the parish of Alvor, Portimão.

One of the entrepreneurs connected to the project is Miguel Pais do Amaral, through Top Building, which is fronting the deal.

The Minister of Culture, Graça Fonseca, confirmed today in Berlin that, by the end of March, Portugal will have a national Film Commission, which will pitch the country as a destination for filming.

"This is one of the pieces of a broader model that leads to the creation of the Film Commission along with the simplification and modernisation of procedures to film in Portugal," said Graça Fonseca.

The National Institute of Statistics released figures today showing that, for the tenth year running, more people died than babies were born.

Specifically, in 2018 there were 87,325 live births and 113,477 deaths in Portugal.

Novo Banco’s US vulture fund owners are pushing their deal to the limit as the bank is to demand €1 billion from the Resolution Fund under the terms of the ruinous sales agreement signed by the Bank of Portugal.

The bank, led by António Ramalho, is preparing to present its annual results on March 1st, which will be accompanied by a demand for a further injection of capital from the Resolution Fund which, in turn, will have to borrow the money from the Treasury, i.e. Portugal’s taxpayers.

Socialist MP, Luís Graça has asked Loulé, Albufeira, Silves and Lagos Counciuls to classify their local wetland areas, namely Trafal and Foz do Almargem, Lagoa dos Salgados and Paul de Lagos, as Local Protected Areas.
 
The appeal from the MP linked into World Wetlands Day on February 2, and aims to commit the municipalities to dealing with the Ministry of the Environment to set up a management plan as these areas are rich in biodiversity, especially bird life.

A few weeks after launching the “Solstrale” solar panel system in Germany, IKEA has made the panels available to its customers in Italy.

Domestic, off the shelf solar power systems already are being retailed by IKEA in Belgium, the U.K., Poland, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

Leonor Cipriano was sentenced in 2005, to 16 years and 8 months in prison for murder and the concealment of her eight-year-old daughter's corpse. She was released from prison on Thursday.

Joana disappeared on September 12, 2004, from the village of Figueira, Portimão, and has never been seen again.