Portugal has been involved in a pan-Europe horse meat scandal which Europol has just smashed.
Spain’s Guardia Civil, working with Europol, has dismantled an organised crime ring that was trading horse meat across Europe - meat that was unfit for human consumption and contained drugs.
A Portuguese former footballer, living in Sweden, has conned Portuguese councils and social security institutions out of €240,000 while posing as the president of a Swedish foundation.
The ruse was convincing enough to persuade 35 such institutions to advance Carlos Quaresma shipping expenses before "installing medical equipment free of charge."
Café Calcinha, near the market in Loulé, reopened on Friday, June 14th having undergone extensive renovation work.
Calcinha opened in 1929 and soon became a Loulé favourite, made famous by the poet António Aleixo where he composed and recited much of his work.
The fire that broke out on June 17th in Pedrógão Grande killed 64 people and wounded more than 200. A month later, the cause of the fire remains unknown, despite reports and analyses.
The Pedrógão Grande fire took a week to extinguish, spread to neighbouring counties including Castanheira de Pera, Figueiró dos Vinhos and Góis, and burned a total of 53,000 hectares.
Several people have been injured in a car accident on the newly completed EN125 near Ferreiras, Albufeira.
The accident happened on Sunday morning at 10.40, July 16th and caused the closure of the road in both directions.
The President of the Assembly of the Republic, Ferro Rodrigues, made an unprecedented break from the neutrality that his position demands, saying in an interview on Friday, that the Galp ‘free tickets for MPs’ affair is a “mystery of Portuguese justice” and that, anyway, it happened a year ago.
Three secretaries of state, - Rocha Andrade, João Vasconcelos and Jorge Costa Oliveira, were forced to resign a year after accepting hospitality, flights and euro 2016 football match tickets for Portugal vs Hungary in Lyon, France.
The EN125 between Lagos and Olhão, "already constitutes a true alternative to the Via do Infante."
This memorable statement was uttered by Rui Sousa, the executive director of the Rotas do Algarve Litoral subcontractor responsible for the EN125 road works.
A new report shows that Portugal soon will have an unsustainable number of pensioners supported by a declining workforce, a low birth rate and not enough immigration to fill the gap.
Portugal holds sixth place in the 'aged population' chart, and if things don’t change, by 2051 the country will have a lower population than in 1950, even though its population will be better educated and healthier.
