The Algarve’s social media has been ablaze with justifiable indignation after ecological land at Cacela Velha, Vila Real de Santo António, was been scraped bare by machinery which cleared vegetation and tore out many protected trees.
The GNR’s environmental protection division, SEPNA, explained that the destruction had been authorised by the Institute of Nature Conservation and Forests, but was prompted to organise a second inspection.
Ryanair cabin crew from four European countries, including Portugal, are to mount a 48-hour strike later in July in a move that will cause severe disruption for holidaymakers.
Cabin crew and ground staff from Portugal, Spain, Italy and Belgium are withdrawing their labour on July 25 and 26, blaming Ryanair management’s failure to address a list of demands about economic safety, rostering and workplace culture.
The 'Marquês Plan' aims to lure tour operators away from Lisbon airport next summer, by offering Beja Airport as a 'competitive destination.'
The Minister of Planning and Infrastructures, Pedro Marquês, informed a parliamentary committee that the government and French-owned Aeroportos de Portugal are joining forces to promote Beja Airport to take the heat off Lisbon's Humberto Delgado airport, which is a maximum capacity.
As part of a €134 million spend, Novo Banco’s management is ‘releasing’ 400 workers this year with a further 30 branches due to close by the end of July.
The target for branch closures is 73 in 2018, with 30 already shut down between January and the end of April this year
Only two weeks of digging were required at Castelo Velho de Safara, in the municipality of Moura, Beja, for the international team from South-West Archaeology Digs* (SWAD), under the scientific direction of Portuguese archaeologists, to unearth remains from the period between the 4th and 1st centuries BC.
"Castelo Velho de Safara is an Iron Age site located in the south of Portugal, at the confluence of the Ardila and Safareja rivers. Located at the top of a hill in a commanding position, it presents three defensive wall-towers and walls," explained the archaeologists at SWAD's website.
Spurred on by the Spanish tax authority successfully relieving Cristiano Ronaldo of €18.8 million in back taxes and fines, the Portuguese tax authority confirmed today that it has been investigating the tax affairs of footballers based at Portugal's top clubs.
The taxman has been tightening control on the business side of football that involved players and coaches and currently is assessing 90 cases its investigations have given cause for suspicion, especially in the areas of transfers and players' image rights.
The number of short-term holiday rental properties now registered in Portugal increased from 26,151 in 2016 to 51,014 by the end of 2017 - an increase of 85%.
The number of beds this represents went from 101,841 to 205,261, a 102% increase.
The British Supreme Court has rejected Goldman Sachs’ attempt to enforce a compensation claim for its $835m loan to Banco Espírito Santo shortly before the banks collapsed into administration in the summer of 2014.
The ruling means that Goldman Sachs is faced with taking its claim through the notoriously slow Portuguese court system even though the loan was written out under the provisions of UK law.
