After yesterday’s weak announcement that only €300,000 is to be spent on repairing the crumbling EN125 eastern section, the mayors of Castro Marim and Vila Real de Santo António met representatives from the Eastern EN125 Citizens' Movement and all agreed that the planned roadworks are a just window dressing and represent a lack of respect for the eastern Algarve population.The Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins, announced on Monday that "emergency works" will be carried out, starting in the second half of May and that these will be concluded “before the summer.”
NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) is to include Portugal as a team member.
Consolidating 'the strength of tourism and preparing the sector for the future' is the stated mission of the Portuguese Tourism Confederation, the umbrella organisation for all the tourism business associations in the country.
MPs with homes outside Lisbon receive nearly double their salary in subsidies and allowances.
Novo Banco and Lisbon’s Nova University have signed an agreement that decides the immediate future of a unique collection of Portuguese coins amassed by Banco Espírito Santo.
Portugal’s National Union of Civil Aviation Flight Personnel (SNPVAC) is to hold a meeting in Lisbon on Tuesday, April 24th, bringing together various European Ryanair cabin crew union leaders to discuss the airline’s lack of willingness to treat its workers fairly.
Galp Energia, in addition to refusing to pay the statutory fuel company supplement tax and now owing the Treasury around €250 million, has been caught on the fiddle again.
The government announced today that it is to spend €1 million patching up holes in the region’s poorest main roads, the EN125, EN124 and EN396, with just €300,000 allocated to the EN125' eastern section.
