Staff at the Foreigners and Borders Service claim not to have been given information about Golden Visa applicants who also are suspects in the biggest corruption purge in Brazil's history.
Many of those being investigated in the ‘Lava-Jato’ investigation, who applied for Golden Visa for Portugal, were granted them, ‘no questions asked.’
The Association of Portuguese Judges has called off the strike set for October 3rd and 4th, due to an "openness of parliamentary groups to discuss grievances in full," according to union boss, Manuela Paupério.
"The management met on Tuesday and we were pondering this situation and we decided to cancel the strike. We understood that it was better not to strike at this time," said Paupério, commenting that "sometimes it is more courageous to retreat than persist."
The Guardian has released a video report about Portugal’s most deadly fire, the June inferno at Pedrógão Grande, which took a week to extinguish.
"On 17 June, a fire swept through the forests of central Portugal, killing 64 people and destroying more than 480 houses.
Teams from Portugal’s National Republican Guard (GNR) and Public Security Police have spent a fruitful week wandering up and down the country, checking trains and railway stations.
The objective was the ‘intensified control and supervision on international and national trains on 11th to 18th September, as well as of railway stations throughout the national territory.’
The Foreigners and Borders Service has reported that requests for Portuguese residency have increased 1,300% in the days following a law change.
The wording of the new law allows those who have a job offer, rather than guaranteed employment, to obtain residency.
The Algarve’s tourist authorities are supportive of an investment of €500,000 in EU funds to look at wine and cooking tourism for the region.
This ‘heavy investment’ involves analysing the existing niche market of culinary and oenological tourism in the ‘Algarve Cooking Vacations’ project and involves the Regional Tourism Authority, the Tourism Association of the Algarve and a local Faro restaurant.
Spain's paramilitary national police, the Guardia Civil, have stormed Catalan regional government buildings on orders from prime minister Mariano Rajoy (pictured) who wants to stop an independence referendum on October 1st.
Guardia Civil officers were ordered to search for documents linked to the banned independence referendum and seized 10 million ballot papers, ballot boxes, posters and leaflets found as they searched 42 premises and made arrests for alleged disobedience, abuse of power and embezzlement related to the controversial referendum.
British man, John Joyce, 72, has been missing in Portugal since the 14th July 2017.
At 9.20 am he walked with his pilgrimage group to a studio nearby to see a video about the Children of Fatima. It finished at 10.45. One of the group saw him in front of the Basilica about 10 minutes later. Since then he has not been seen nor heard from. He had left his passport, money, mobile, reading glasses, hat, etc in his hotel, so was obviously not intending to go far before returning to the hotel for lunch at 1pm.
