“We cannot expect more from Europe without giving more to Europe”, said Portugal's Prime Minister, António Costa, “Portugal is ready to increase its contribution” to the budget, he told MEPs at a debate on the future of Europe.
The battle that the president of Sporting football club is engaged in with the Tax Authority continues. Between February 27 and March 7th this year, Bruno de Carvalho filed four counter claims to four tax enforcement proceedings for a debt of almost €3.3 million.
'Brexit fears' have restricted the flow of Portuguese workers moving to the UK with 26% fewer opting for grey northern climes last year, compared to 2016.
After storm Felix exhausts itself, to the detriment of Portugal’s coastline and agricultural infrastructure, Portugal’s weather service has warned of the next event, storm Gisele.
This new spate of bad weather is scheduled to hit the mainland this week after it has moved on from the Azores, heading to the UK but affecting Portugal, en route.
An inevitable explosion of indignation has been heard from the offices of the Portuguese Hotels Association and the Algarve’s regional hoteliers’ trade body over the proposal by the region’s mayors to introduce a ‘tourist tax.’
The Associação de Hotelaria de Portugal says that the mayors’ planned introduction of the tourist tax across all the region’s council areas, is “inopportune and inappropriate when considering the competition from other tourist destinations and in taking into account the reduction in British tourists.”
The audit of Silves council finances, ordered by the Public Prosecutor's Office and carried out in the last quarter of 2017, has resulted in the Court of Auditors issuing a (reduced) demand for €260,000, to be paid by the former mayors Isabel Soares and Rogério Pinto.
In an effort to attract film and television production, Portugal is introducing a new incentive programme, offering substantial rebates of 25 percent of the cost of production up to €4 million per project.
In the case of projects that are determined to have special cultural relevance to Portugal, have significant impact on cinematography in Portugal, chose to shoot in low-population areas or employ actors or technicians with disabilities, rebates of 30% are available.
Oskar Groening, the former Auschwitz guard convicted in his 90s for his role in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews at the concentration camp, has died in Germany, writes the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Reports of his death surfaced on Monday, though the German publication der Spiegel reported that he died Friday and authorities had not yet received his death certificate. He was 96.
