The Iberian Director General of Airbnb, Arnaldo Muñoz, says the collaboration between his company and the Portuguese government in ensuring all owners are submitting correctly registered properties, "is something unique and allows Portugal’s tourism to grow."
The collaboration between Airbnb and Turismo de Portugal means that, as from December 1st, all new property listings automatically will be registered on the Turismo de Portugal Alojamento Local web portal.
Accidents on Portugal’s road network have resulted in 460 deaths so far in 2017, according to the National Highway Safety Authority.
The death toll is 53 higher than in the same period of 2016, with the number of accidents registered at the Authority by the police and the GNR, up 1,902 from last year’s 116,340.
Mário Centeno, is to become the next president of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, taking over the job from Jeroen Dijsselbloem in January, 2018.
The election of Portugal’s current finance minister is prestigous and will delight Portugal's socialist administration while improving the country’s international standing after António Guterres was elected as the Secretary-General of the United Nations in October 2016.
The one and only super-moon appearance of 2017 appeared this evening, Sunday, 3 December.
A super-moon happens when a full moon coincides with the moon being at its closest to the Earth during orbit, the perigee, which means it appeared roughly 30% larger and brighter than the smallest full moon.
The Left Bloc has spoken out against pollution in the river Tejo, accusing the government of being frightened of confronting the large companies that dump their industrial effluent.
The "scourge of pollution" in the waters of the Tejo, is not confronted, “because nobody has the courage to face the big pulp companies."
The President of Endesa Portugal, Nuno Ribeiro da Silva, says that half of the energy bills in Portugal is "payment for taxes and fees.”
"Energy has been the cash cow of government revenues," said the Endesa boss whose company is a leader in the renewable energy sector in Europe, Americas, Asia, Oceania and Africa, producing solar, wind, hydro and geothermal energy.
The body of the Brazilian woman shot dead by Lisbon police on November 15th, arrived in Paranavaí, northwest of Paraná in Brazil on Friday with the cost being covered by her employer, a restaurant at Lisbon airport.
Ivanice Carvalho da Costa was killed in a Public Security Police operation when armed officers mistook the black Renault Mégane, in which she was a passenger, as a black Seat Leon getaway car being used by a gang of cash machine robbers. Officers fired 40 rounds at the car and hit da Costa in the neck. She died at the scene.
The Algarve’s almost miraculous escape from the worst of this summer’s fires has been confirmed, with only 290 hectares burned compared with 5,801 in 2016, between January and the end of October each year.
An average of only one fire a day, led the region’s relief operations chief to declare that these are excellent results with all but nine of the Algarve's 365 fires put out within the first 90 minutes.
