Paul Rees
Portugal's 2017 'corruption in the public sector' score is 63, rising just one point in a year, a small change which Transparency International says is not statistically significant. The country continues to stagnate in the fight against corruption, according to Portugal’s Association for Transparency and Integrity (TIAC), which points out that little has changed in the past six years as the points score has been a stubborn 62 or 63.
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With debts of €137.4 million, the Portuguese entrepreneur who made a fortune in the pharmaceutical industry and was a shareholder of the now bankrupt BPN and BPP, is to surrender his not inconsiderable assets to his creditors.
Supermarket group, Intermarché, is launching an adopt-a-pet scheme and a voucher suystem for local animal adoption centres.
A large fire caused local concern as it lit up the evening sky on the eastern edge of Faro this evening.
Praia da Falésia, in the Olhos de Água area of Albufeira, has made it onto TripAdvisor’s ‘25 Best Beaches in the World,' the only beach in Portugal in the ranking.
The Minister of the Environment said today that the bill for cleaning up the pollution in the Tagus river, was between €1 million and €1.2 million so far, which will be paid out of the Environmental Fund.
The Portuguese Communist Party has presented parliament with six draft resolutions to improve mobility and transport in the Algarve region, all of which are "fundamental for the development of the Algarve" and whose implementation "can not continue to be postponed."
Portugal wants to encourage more Jews to line and invest in the country, said the Secretary of State, Ana Mendes Godinho, during a visit to the US.
