Pictures of a pedestrian crossing in S. Mamede de Infesta, Matosinhos, have gone viral on social media but for all the wrong reasons.
Far from exemplifying a carefully planned safety measure to aid pedestrians as they negotiate a potentially dangerous public road, the crossing is painted on a narrow back street with no pavements and runs wall to wall.
Portugal’s President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, was received in Brazila this Wednesday by the new President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, one day after the new leader's inauguration.
It was a quick yet positive meeting, Marcelo told reporters, "As I said and as President Bolsonaro said, it was a meeting between brothers and what was said was said fast, like in a family."
Olhão council intends to adopt all the new powers that the Government is handing to municipalities in its decentralisation programme.
The mayor of Olhão’s council says he is prepared "to assume in full, this year, the new tasks outlined in the framework on transferring powers to local authorities and inter-municipal entities."
The taxman has taken administrative possession of an average of 48 properties per day, during the last year.
Of the total of 16,073 actions carried up to November 2018, the majority relate to family homes, although debtors have been able to stay in their properties under 2016 legislation.
Social rents, tolls and transport costs have risen today, January 1st, 2019, but there will be a 3.5% drop in electricity costs in the regulated market this year, with a smaller decrease for those with accounts in the liberalised market.
Non-alcoholic drnks thata re loaded with sugar will be penalised firther in 2019, with the State Budget applying tax according to the drink's sugar content.
Rail transport services have been liberalised in Portugal, after an EU-driven law was introduced, active as from Tuesday, January 1st, 2019.
A number of legislative changes have been announced by the Government which aims to stimulate competition on the national rail network.
Road accidents claimed the lives of eight people over the New Year break, according to GNR figures from 28th December onwards.
In addition to traffic accidents, in figures to 08:00 this morning, the GNR inspected 28,460 drivers and found 458 of them were over the alcohol limit - 167 were so drunk that they were arrested.
Brexit is a chaos that does not help anyone," says Portugal’s Finance Minister, adding that a second referendum is essential and that the UK must stay part of the European Union, for everyone's benefit.
Mário Centeno, who also heads the Eurogroup of member states’ finance ministers, hopes the UK stays, an outcome, “which will benefit the EU and the UK.”
