A tax fraud involving the sale of Spanish diesel may have cost Portuguese taxpayers as much as €200 million in the past four years.
The Left Bloc has piled into the Ria Formosa demolitions fracas, insisting that the government halts is current process to demolish 22 further properties, many of which are owned by shellfishermen and fishermen, so qualify for exemption under the Environment Minister's own edict. 
German, Dutch and Irish tourists compensated for a downturn in the number of UK holidaymakers last year- the Algarve’s hoteliers’ association chief blames Brexit.
Beer slurpers in Portugal managed to guzzle 8% more last year as the economy improved, the weather stayed finer for longer and thirsty tourists flooded into the country.
Ireland's Dáil Éireann, the country's lower house of parliament, voted 78-48 last Thursday to push forward with a bill to stop the government from issuing new contracts for onshore and offshore oil and gas exploration.
The death last August of a woman from Belarus, mown down by an accellerating tourist boat as it left a cave at Padre Vincente beach, Carvoeiro, was due to unnecessary speed and lack of warning signals.
Superjudge, Carlos Alexandre, said he is available to appear as a witness in defence of the environmentalist singled out by pulp producer, Celtejo, to pay €250,000 in compensation for besmirching the company’s name.Portugal’s Public Prosecution Service has decided that the results of the water analyses taken from the Tagus river will remain a 'secret of justice' and will not be revealed, for the timebeing anyway.
