The mayor of Aljezur, José Amarelinho, may not be mayor much longer as his final appeal to the Constitutional Court has been rejected.
The German publication, Der Spiegel, and the weekly Portuguese paper, Expresso, have shared details of how Álvaro Sobrinho, the former boss of Banco Espírito Santo - Angola (BES-A), managed to divert funds, including €227 million in customers’ cash deposits.
António Mexia, the president of EDP, earned €2.2 million in 2017, a figure 52 times more than the average salary of EDP's 12,000 employees.
At last, researchers have come up with accurate unemployment figures, not the sanitised ones used by government.
The Social Democratic Party’s vice president, Salvador Malheiro, has spoken out against the lobbying of big energy companies operating in Portugal and the resulting high costs that government and councils have been saddled with.
Carles Puigdemont, the exiled former president of Catalonia, has ended his re-election bid.
Inconveniently for his political ambitions, Puigdemont faces arrest should he return to Spanish territory which has made it difficult for him to campaign and left the big question unanswered, could he rule from Belgium?
To the delight of the Algarve’s tourism industry, the city of Oporto has become the second location in Portugal to levy a 'tourist tax' on its visitors.
British purchasers of property in Portugal have been consigned to third place as the French invasion continues apace.
