Portugal’s animals and nature party has filed a complaint with the Public Prosecutor's Office for the pollution in the Tagus River.
The party, aka André Silva – its lone MP - based his complaint on what he considers to be the "drastic worsening of the pollution situation," which has led to several requests for intervention by the presidents of various councils along the worst parts of the river and from the ProTejo environmental movement.
From November 21st, it will be possible to carry out a money transfer in 10 seconds. Nine European countries have joined the scheme, but not Portugal which has until November 2018 to join up.
Transferring money almost immediately between European countries will be free, up to a maximum of €15,000, in nine countries - Spain, Germany, Italy, Austria, Estonia, Latvia, the Netherlands, Finland and Lithuania.
Portugal’s Post Office’s announcement that it is to shed staff, in a cost-cutting exercise to prop up its share price, has had some success with shares rising slowly on the Lisbon stock exchange.
After reaching a historical low of just above €3, CTT’s management had to do something - and quickly – to impress shareholders already nursing huge paper losses.
Portugal has joined the Powering Past Coal Alliance and plans to have closed the country's coal-fired power stations by 2030.
There already are 15 in the group of countries that want to switch from coal as a power source and move to a higher contribution from renewable energies.
Nearly 150 ATMs have been blown up this year with the most recent incident, on Wednesday in Almada, ending with the Public Security Police shooting dead an innocent woman during a car chase.
This year alone, 149 ATMs have been attacked in Portugal, a figure now seized on by the media after the tragic accidental shooting this Wednesday morning in Pragal, Almada, when police mistakenly shot and killed a woman passenger in a Seat Leon which was mistaken for the get-away vehicle
Tivoli Hotels in Portugal was the star of Minor Hotels’ operations with record profits in the year to the end of September. The company’s strategy of renovating many of its newly acquired hotels in Portugal has paid off, with further work planned through the current low season.
Minor Hotels, a Thai company, bought the Tivoli assets from Rioforte Investments SA, the Grupo Espírito Santo property subsidiary that collapsed along with the rest of the once proud group.
The construction of a three-kilometre walk-way already has been completed, opening before the tourist season in July this year, and now the crowds have gone, the second part of the project to remodel Monte Gordo's seaside area can commence.
The old beachside businesses, 19 of them, that faithfully have served generations of tourists and locals, are to be torn down and new, purpose built buildings erected 'before next summer.'
The Algarve Social Democratic Party MP, Cristóvão Norte, has spotted that the Algarve will be hard hit by changes in the taxation of those registered for Alojamento Local tourist rentals.
Alterations proposed in the State Budget for 2018 are the focus of Norte’s ire, on behalf of the region’s registered landlords, and he confronted the prime and finance ministers during the general debate on next year’s taxation changes.
