Banks in Europe have got the upper hand in the regulation wars, aiming to leave EU citizens with the bill for years of poor judgement and non-performing loans.
These NPLs held by European banks total €759 billion, over 5% of all loans, the banks want taxpayers to shoulder the burden.
Brazil has extradited José Manuel Gomes Leonardo, to Portugal. The career criminal is guilty of kidnapping, robbery and drug trafficking.
Having announced the closure of outlets in UK and the US, ToysRUs has declared insolvency in Portugal as it can not find a buyer for the business.
Spain’s tax authority has rejected Cristiano Ronaldo's offer to regularise his tax situation so the €15 million case will proceed to court.
A report to be released tomorrow states that the three fires in the districts of Coimbra, Viseu and Guarda last October, had become uncontrollable in less time than the fire in Pedrógão Grande in June, where 67 people died.
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner,* said that the best way to deal with climate change is to involve young people, who he asked to plant trees, consume less and eat better as they are seen as part of the solution, not the problem.
Lagos council says the horses it is auctioning off are the ones collected from public roads and whose carers did not come forward to claim them.
Portugal’s Institute of Nature Conservation and Forests (ICNF) downplayed the total area of land that had been consumed in last summer’s fires when the European Commission issued a figure of 560,000 hectares.
In 2017, the ICNF stated that 442,000 hectares had been consumed, a figure that has now been restated, showing Portugal’s assessment was far lower than the stark reality.
