After a thoroughly dismal Sunday, the weather is to improve over the next few days but the week will end with more rain.
Monday and Tuesday in the south will be sunny with some high cloud and increasing temperatures, 23°C is predicted for the Algarve and 24°C for Lisbon as the week becomes warmer.
The ten airports in Portugal managed by French company, VINCI Airports, logged 10.4 million passengers in the first three months of this year, an increase of 12% on the same period in 2017.
Vinci stated that this growth "reflects, in particular, the good performance of the five leading airlines operating in Portugal, all with double-digit growth."
The 1970 bilateral tax treaty between Finland and Portugal is to be altered to stop Finns living in Portugal tax free.
Portugal’s Minister of Finance, Mário Centeno, admitted that the Government has been studying 'possible changes' for a few months in the name of good fiscal relation with other countries.
The fire that broke out last October in the famous and much loved Pinhal de Leiria forest was planned a month in advance, according to a report by TVI 24.
Involved in planning the blaze were owners of at least four of the largest timber companies in the region and owners of the factories that buy and sell lumber.
Unsurprisingly to those following the politics behind Portugal’s oil and gas game of misinformation and duplicity, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation has ended its alleged negotiation with China’s CEFC which, claimed the foundation, wanted to purchase its oil company, Partex.
Partex remits 100% of its profits each year to the Gulbenkian Foundation, unsurprisingly as the foundation owns 100% of Partex.
A tornado hit the centre of Albufeira early this morning, damaging vehicles and street furniture and uprooting trees.
This is the third tornado to hit the region this year with one of the two in March destroying a Roma camp but giving the President of the Republic an opportunity to kiss babies and assure the Roma community that he was not just the president for clean and scrubbed white people.
The incompetence if the Algarve’s waste handling company, Algar, gain has been on full display with the company admitting that untreated leachate* from the Sotavento Sanitary Landfill in Salir is polluting the Vascão river.
The Sotavento Landfill Monitoring Commission met in Loulé on Tuesday to confront Algar, the company that is meant to be managing the landfill site, as the pollution was known to be leaching into the river.