The Lisbon Court of Appeal has dismissed an application by José Sócrates to have Judge Carlos Alexandre removed from the Operation Marquês case.
Bowing to international pressure after downgrading Portugal’s need for international rail links, Prime Minister Antónia Costa today announced that it is time for public investment in the country’s network.
The Chinese state-owned company CNIC has bought another 2% of EDP’s shares, in a deal worth €200 million.
The Secretary of State for Agriculture, Luís Medeiros Vieira, today visited some of the areas affected by the recent bad weather and tornados in the Algarve.
The gypsy community, rendered homeless after Sunday’s tornado damaged their collection of shacks, temporarily has been housed in a pavilion in Faro.
"I have no doubt that this is an absolutely corrupt scheme in which members of government, real estate agents, lawyers, and others are involved,” insisted Member of the European Parliament, Ana Gomes - the anti-corruption organisation, Transparency International, has come to much the same conclusion as it today claimed that Golden Visa programmes in Europe pose "major corruption risks."
A tornado swept across Faro and Olhão council areas on Sunday afternoon, leaving a trail of destroyed trees, cars and walls.
Treated effluent from the new Wastewater Treatment Plants at Companheira, near Portimão and from the one being built between Faro and Olhão, will be reused for irrigation. 
