Far-right politics has gained a firm foothold in the Spanish region of Andalucía with the Vox party winning 12 seats in the regional parliamentary elections.
The Socialists remain in power, taking 33 of the 109 seats, but have been dealt a body blow by the upstart far right that has been campaigning against Catalan independence, immigration and abortion.
TAP Portugal is to increase its presence in the United States following the delivery of its first Airbus A330neo.
The company is launching direct flights to Washington-Dulles and Chicago O’Hare airports as part of next year’s summer schedule.
The Judicial Police is investigating the possibility of explosive detonations at the Borba quarry, just hours before the accident on November 19th, when a public road collapsed, killing five people.
The investigators have interviewed several witnesses who say they heard at least two detonations before a section of the EN225 gave way.
Yet again, Portugal’s President hits the note that politicians fail to reach. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa fills not one, but two shopping carts with food items for this weekend’s Food Bank collection while effortlessly coming up with the sort of soundbite that would sound insincere from anyone but himself.
“I have more obligation because I am privileged,” said our leader, while encouraging others to follow his example as an obligation, not as a favour.
A couple died in a road traffic accident on Friday morning on the EN124 near the Portimão A22 motorway junction.
The accident happened at 11:00am and involved a car being crushed by a truck as it overturned on the roundabout.
The National Statistics Institute confirmed on Thursday that the unemployment rate in Portugal fell from 6.9% in August to 6.6%, in September, the lowest since September 2002.
"In September 2018, the unemployment rate was 6.6%, down 0.3 percentage points from the previous month, down 0.2 points from three months earlier and 2.0 points less than in the same month of 2017," read the INE report.
Portugal's Food Bank Against Hunger is launching an appeal across the nation this coming weekend, December 1st and 2nd, when 40,000 volunteers will be collecting food from customers in more than 2,000 supermarkets, 140 of them in the Algarve.
The campaign runs on until December 9th, on-line, (HERE) where people can donate money to help build up stocks of essentials for those that can’t afford them.
Olhão Council has approved its 2019 Budget and plans to spend €32 million, with a focus on social housing, rubbish and upgrading the historic city centre.
As for housing, "We have an aging social housing area that is in urgent need of repair and upgrade. We have already started this but there is more to do," said Mayor António Pina.
