With the UK due to leave the European Union, the remaining member states have advanced with a unified plan to integrate military funding, weapons development, and the deployment of European defence forces.
The UK always has opposed this sort of cooperation but with Brexit looking and pressure from the US, whose president has accused EU countries of not paying their fair share to support NATO, the unified plan is going ahead and may well hurt American defence suppliers.
A Norwegian man has been found dead in an apartment in Armação de Pêra, Silves. The 69-year-old visitor was staying at the home of a Swedish friend.
Leading up to, and at the entrance of the apartment building, traces of blood have been found but the police are remaining tight-lipped over the most likely cause of death.
The former president of the Institute of Registries and Notaries, António Figueiredo, said in court that was "just trying to help Chinese friends" with their Golden Visa applications and hadn’t made any money out of it.
Accused of crimes of passive corruption for unlawful acts, undue receipt of advantage, trafficking of influence and prevarication, António Figueiredo decided to make a full statement in court to try and show that "there was no criminal intent" on his part.
Pedro Passos Coelho was a consultant and administrator of Tecnoforma before becoming prime minister. He and Miguel Relvas have been associated with claims that the EU was ripped-off over training programmes run by the company that either never happened or the numbers attending were inflated.
The European Commission's anti-fraud office has detected "serious irregularities or even frauds in the management of European funds" in projects submitted or carried out by Tecnoforma.
Portugal’s Minister for the Environment, João Matos Fernandes, has looked at the pollution in the Tagus and the low amount of water being released from Spain, concluding that there is no problem at all and that he "saw no dead fish." The most likely explanation being that they are all dead - (here)
Stating that it is no use measuring water flow when there is a drought, the minister did suggest that daily, rather than weekly, measurements should be taken as Spain varies the amount of water released – “Portugal must negotiate with Spain accordingly,” said the minister.
Road works on the EN125 means that road traffic over the bridge over the Arade river at Portimão will be diverted on 14, 16 and 21 November.
The bridge will be closed to traffic several times a day, but only for brief periods of around ten minutes each.
An abandoned newborn baby was found with signs of life in a ditch in Boavista dos Pinheiros in Odemira but later died.
The authorities were called at 11:50 this on Monday morning after a mamber of the public spotted the newborn near the Boavista dos Pinheiros residential area.
The Eurovision Song Contest 2018, to be hosted by Portugal next May, is expected to cost RTP around €12 million.
This is the estimate issued by the public broadcaster and included in its 2018 budget.
