Brussels want to ‘harmonise consumer guarantees issued on equipment purchased from Portugal’s retailers.
Under new proposals, Portugal’s current two-year product warranty will be halved to 12 months, after which it is down to the consumer to bin a defunct piece of equipment, pay for it to be repaired or buy another one.
Portugal has only one person on the Forbes rich list, the billionaire widow of cork magnate, Américo Amorim.
Maria Fernanda Amorim appears in position 382 on the Forbes list with a fortune valued at 5.1 billion dollars (€4.1 billion), all of which was inherited from her husband (pictured) who died last July.
The collapse of a section of cliff at Careanos beach, Portimão, on Tuesday, was the 18th registered collapse along the western Algarve coast since the bad weather began, according to the Portuguese Environment Agency.
Fertile sardines have doubled their numbers in Portuguese coastal areas where fishing has been banned since October last year.
The English couple at the centre of the first episode of the BBC’s “Get Away for Winter” series broadcast last month are among the ever-growing number of foreigners renting properties during the off-season, or even all-year-round.
More than 1.3 million cruise passengers entered the national ports last year, a new record and 5% up on the year before.
Brussels points out "significant deficiencies" in the management of Novo Banco when it was created in 2014, at a cost of €4.4 billion, and run under the control of the Bank of Portugal until it was sold in October 2017 to the US vulture fund, Lone Star.
One in ten Portuguese patients prescribed medicines by a doctor last year was unable to purchase them due to lack of funds.
