The eucalyptus lobby has attempted a hearts and minds operation in a new manifesto that notes the percentage of the species burnt in last year and this year’s forest fires.
Several personalities and companies allied to the trade in this fast growing wood, state that the fires that broke out in Portugal were not due to the presence of eucalyptus, but due to the "very low level of management of the forest and of overgrown and unattended forests."
A record number of those using Portugal’s airports have suffered disruption this year, nearly twice the number logged over the same period in 2017.
An average of 890 people per day have been subject to delays, according to AirHelp which gives the most common cause as ‘a lack of pilots.’
Theresa May summoned her cabinet to an emergency meeting on Wednesday afternoon to sign off her long awaited final Brexit deal, prompting hard-Brexit Tories to call for senior ministers to stand up and block it, writes Dan Sabbagh, Daniel Boffey and Jessica Elgot in The Guardian on Tuesday evening.
The critical meeting is the culmination of months of negotiations and will see May’s senior ministers consider whether they can personally endorse the agreement that the prime minister has been able to reach.
Portugal’s formerly State owned energy supplier, EDP, continues to ride low in the popularity polls after the company admitted to charging customers twice for the same bill.
Tens of thousands of consumers who had chosen to pay by Direct Debit had two equal amounts taken from their accounts, due to a, "communication error with the bank," according to EDP, which has just announced that it will make a first time loss on its domestic Portuguese business this year.
Drivers have not got the message about mobile phone use while on the go, an average of 115-a-day have been stopped and fined by traffic police, so far this year.
Despite all the warnings and grim statistics regarding the increased chance of an accident, Portuguese drivers continue to break the law.
The Algarve is too rich to help the poor: this is the conclusion of the European Commission whose rules for State support of Europe’s poorest citizens preclude the Algarve's social aid institutions from applying successfully for grants to combat poverty and discrimination.
A complaint has been lodged by José Carlos Barros, a PSD MP in the Algarve, speaking during the 2019 Budget deliberations.
The Minister of Planning and Infrastructure said today that the closure of Post Office branches, especially those in countryside areas, "is the wrong strategy."
Pedro Marquês added that "unfortunately" there is no way that he can doing anything about the situation as the CTT Post Office business was sold off by the government and now is in private hands.
The Government is studying the possibility of selling 200 tons of uranium ore concentrate, stored in drums at the abandoned mine at Nelas, Viseu.
The material has been in storage since the closure of the Urgeiriça mines in 1999.
