With an already overloaded justice system groaning under the volume of backed-up cases, the Association of Portuguese Judges has announced a 21-day national strike.
"Unfortunately we have been forced to come to this extreme situation, but we are willing to talk, as we have always been. We have to do it in a climate of responsibility and seriousness," said the president of the judges’ trade union, Manuel Soares.
A website and app have been launched for motorhome owners coming to the Algarve and aims to eradicate the practice of ‘wild camping’ that has been blamed for many of the negative impacts this form of tourism can have on the region.
The website, launched by the Coordination and Regional Development Commission of the Algarve (CCDR-Algarve), aims to promote the region while making clear what the current laws mean for motorhome owners.
The 14 projects already approved under an incentive scheme to attract movie-makers to in Portugal, should bring in €23.7 million, according to the Ministry of Culture.
"So far - and including applications that came in 2017 under the previous tax regime - incentives already have been approved for 14 projects, which include productions from the USA, India, Brazil, Portugal or Italy, and several joint productions from Portugal and France, and, Portugal, Spain and France, adding up a total investment of €23.7 million in filming in Portugal."
Portugal was one of the big winners on the night of November 3rd, collecting trophies for both ‘World’s Best Golf Destination’ and ‘Europe’s Best Golf Destination’ at the 2018 World Golf Awards.
For individual courses, St Andrews Links (Old Course), Scotland scooped the award for ‘World's Best Golf Course’, while The Belfry was recognised as ‘World's Best Golf Hotel’.
The coordinator of the Emigration Observatory says that Portugal "desperately needs" more immigrants and, in order to solve the problem of lack of labour, should make it easier for foreigners to come and work here - the government should, "run recruitment campaigns in key overseas markets."
For sociologist Rui Pena Pires, the labour problem that Portugal faces can only be solved by more immigration which, if it does not happen, leaves the country heading towards its own "suicide."
The theft of weapons and explosives from the Tancos military base and the dumping of similar equipment on nearby wasteland months later, continues to raise suspicions that the public are not being told the truth and that politicians and military personnel are lying.
The Prime Minister, António Costa, is "obviously fully available" to respond to the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry, set up to look into the bizarre events that started in June 2017 with the break-in at the Tancos base.
China’s Three Gorges' offer to buy a controlling share of Portugal’s energy supplier, EDP, has hit the buffers with regulatory concerns and a lack of ready cash hampering the bidding process.
Regulatory problems have pushed the offer back to early next year, despite a final offer was due in late 2018.
An acrobatic manoeuver carried out by experienced pilot, Eduardo Ferreira, caused his own death when his powered paraglider crashed.
The accident happened on May 20, 2018. Ferreira, 49, died on impact near the football ground in Alvor, Portimão.
