A company owned by the wife of the former minister, Miguel Relvas, was contracted by a Lisbon parish council to supply communication, media training and press advice.
Consumption of cannabis in Portugal has increased over the last five years, with more tokers and more people indulging daily, according to the Drugs and Drug Addiction 2016 report, released today.
Both TAP and Jet Blue Airways are studying the documentation relating to the forthcoming sale of 49% of Azores Airlines.
Police have arrested a woman suspected of masterminding a €5 million fraud involving the sale of yachts that she did not own.
The Portuguese Communist Party’s Algarve divisional office stated today that the recent demolition notices sent to 22 Ria Formosa islanders has nothing at all to do with, ‘defending the environment.’
The new administrative seizures, planned by Polis Litoral Ria Formosa as precursors to the demolition of yet more houses in the settlements of Farol and Hangars, "has as its ultimate objective, in the name of defending environmental values, to gradually expel the local communities from the Ria Formosa islands, to deliver this valuable territory to the interests of economic groups, as indeed happens along much of the Algarve’s coast."
Martin Essayan is the only family representative on the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation management board and confirmed that the decision to sell off his grandfather's oil company was "unanimous."
The Bank of Portugal hid a financial black hole of €954 million in Rioforte while guaranteeing to shareholders that the company was viable.
The Bank of Portugal, under governor Carlos Costa, (pictured), later failed to disclose key information about events leading to the bankruptcy of Rioforte, part of the Espírito Santo Group which collapsed in 2014.
Portugal’s Association of Diplomats has demanded that the government reconsiders its appointment of the former candidate for the Presidency of the Republic to be its UNESCO representative.
The Association reacted to the announcement of the Government's intention to appoint Sampaio da Nóvoa as Portugal’s ambassador to UNESCO, stating that it was a "complete surprise” and a very strange choice.
