Influenza in Portugal remains an epidemic but was said to be ‘stable’ in the second week of the year, with an incidence rate of 48.8 per 100,000 citizens.
Portugal and England have been the European countries with the highest percentage of cases since the beginning of the year. Data collected from 'Flu News Europe, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control and the World Health Organisation, show moderate outbreaks in Ireland, the Netherlands, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Continuing a long tradition of announcing "a new rail link to Faro airport," the government has done it again, stating that the work will be part of its National Investment Plan 2030, with the civil engineering work taking place between 2021 and 2026.
Adept at announcing work that never starts, the proviso used the government is the old ‘environmental study’ chestnut, a study that it appears not to have commissioned.
Portugal’s government has authorised the installation of dedicated UK Passport holder corridors at two of its airports to enable the smooth flow of post-Brexit holidaymakers.
Prime Minister, António Costa, stated that, “Millions of Britons visit Portugal as tourists every year, we have to ensure the flow is not interrupted.”
At a meeting of the Socialist Party in Loulé on Wednesday 16th January, the audience was address by Dr Augusto Santos Silva, the Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs.
As the subject of the meeting was ‘Brexit’, Michael Reeve, the CEO of afpop, was invited by the Faro MP, Dra Ana Passos.
The Revive programme, launched in 2016 to promote the sale or lease of old public buildings to the tourism sector, has received enquiries from about 440 interested parties, “of which 100 are foreigners," said the Secretary of State for Tourism.
The Castle of Cerveira was added to the list today, leaving dozens of ancient monasteries, convents, castles and forts up for negotiation.
Far from abolishing the suspiciously opaque Golden Visa programme, Portugal’s government is intent on widening the scheme by adding a new category, the ‘Green Visa.’
Parliament turned down a bill proposed by the opposition parties to abolish the Golden Visa scheme and voted through a counter-measure to widen the scheme’s appeal.
Aljezur Council and Polis Litoral Sudoeste Society, the sister organization to Polis Litoral Ria Formosa and also ‘in liquidation’, has announced that it has commissioned work to Portinho da Arrifana and is creating a footbridge to Odeceixe beach.
The deal was signed off in December last year.
The mayor of Lagoa has spotted the obvious flaws in the government’s mission to decentralise services to local Councils and is clear that, without a lot more financial information, he is not able to accept the deal on offer.
All councils will be forced to accept the government’s new deal in 2021 but Francisco Martins is not biting right now, fearing that the financial implications hidden deep with the 'generous offer' would leave Lagoa Council’s coffers empty.
