President Xi Jinping of China is half-way through his three-day visit to Spain, en-route for a G20 meeting in Argentina. On his way ‘home’, he will be coming through Portugal. The reason: to ‘strengthen ties’ (meaning ‘eye-up investment opportunities’). It’s a direction that other EU leaders are trying to subvert. The world’s press explains:
At last, a Europe-wide survey that sees Portugal coming out on top.
“Being Black in the EU” was published yesterday and puts Portugal “among the countries where black people feel less discriminated”.
Over a decade since a father playing ball with his son noticed that the family’s apartment floor had a definite unexplained tilt to it, the Austral building in Quarteira’s Rua Alagoa is finally to be the focus of “corrective works”.
Loulé mayor Vítor Aleixo has described the anomaly as “worrying in terms of risk”, but the story in tabloid Correio da Manhã today doesn’t explain whether the building is actually listing, or simply permanently inclined.
Critics said it could never happen, but three years on from the formation of Portugal’s ‘geringonça’ (contraption) government, there is every sign that it won’t just reach the end of its four-year term next October but will win the next legislative elections hands-down. For political bystanders, this has been a ‘magical mystery tour’ where positive PR has been the name of the game.
Parliament has approved a Left Bloc proposal that the Bank of Portugal must release the names of all those who took advantage of controversial tax amnesties in 2005, 2010 and 2012 which enabled citizens to repatriate offshore funds without triggering tax payments.
The names will be made available to Finanças whose investigators carefully can check out the financial background of each person involved.
The Prosecutor's Office is investigating the involvement of organised crime and terrorism in the Tancos missing armaments case but the prime minister today said that the investigation is not looking at these two groups, claiming he has information from "national authorities."
Replying to a question posed by a student about the possible involvement of terrorists, Costa replied that, "This scenario fortunately does not arise because the national authorities, and in particular the Secretary General of the Internal Security System, met the Counter Terrorism Coordination Unit, which identified that the theft had nothing to do with organised crime, let alone terrorist activity."
Meetings are scheduled to want the Algarve’s residents that they are adding far too much salt to their meals.
The Order of Nutritionists is expounding its latest concern about salt’s relationship with hypertension.
Social Democratic Party MP, Cristóvão Norte, has criticised the continued blocking of the funds needed to build a new hospital in the Algarve region.
The Democrats have been trying to get an amendment to the State Budget 2019 that ensured the Hospital Central do Algarve, first agreed in 2006 but blocked every year since due to funding 'issues,' would at last be constructed as the current ones can't cope.
