The Attorney General's Office today has insisted that justice be done in the ‘Ponte de Sor’ case and is not interested that the Iraqi ambassador has agreed a compensation payment with Rúben Cavaco’s lawyers to cover the lad’s injuries.
The State prosecution service insists on the need to lift the diplomatic immunity of the ambassador’s twin boys who already have accepted responsibility for the beating given to Cavaco in Ponte de Sor last August.
Five former bank executives have been sentenced to prison by a high court in Spain after getting millions in severance payments.
Nova Caixa Galicia (NCG) was known by the executives to be in severe financial difficulty, but they nevertheless took nearly €19 million in compensation when they left their posts in 2010.
Deutsche Bank is to pay $7.2 billion to the US for misconduct which contributed to the 2008 financial meltdown.
The settlement was announced on Tuesday by the US Department of Justice which said that it was the largest settlement reached so far concerning the conduct of a single entity contributing to the crisis.
A sensible follow-on from the Strategy for Intelligent Specialisation in local agriculture is the launch of the Agrotur project, which aims to connect rural famers with their local hotel, restaurant and tourism providers to encourage direct trade.
Focusing on low density rural areas of the Algarve, the local university is starting the study to look into the commercial and practical realities of this trade between food producers and buyers.
Although not exposed to the perils that press freedom encounters in places such as Turkey or Hungary, experts in Portugal tell Mapping Media Freedom that journalists in the country live under a “subliminal” type of pressure that can lead to the deterioration of their work and their fundamental rights as media workers.
Most of this pressure, they say, is caused by low wages and endemic job insecurity.
The mystery of the Algarve’s dwindling seahorse population may be as much due to theft as the State condoned pollution that affects their Ria Formosa breeding grounds.
A Portuguese family from Olhão has been caught red-handed by Spain’s Guadia Civil in possession of more than 2,000 dried seahorses as they were being sold to a couple of dealers from Cadiz.
Located at either end of Portugal, the tourist boards representing Oporto and the Algarve have decided to work together to attract more Spanish tourists.
"These are two regions that complement each other in the offer," says Desidério Silva, head of tourism in the Algarve, as he attempted to justify joint participation of the regional boards at Fitur, the International Tourism Fair in Madrid, that starts on Wednesday 18th January.
António Guterres, the new head of the United Nations, has the best record on keeping electoral promises of Portugal’s prime ministers in the past 20 years.
Researcher Maria Belchior at Lisbon University, concluded that Portuguese governments between1995 and 2015, fulfilled about 60% of their pre-election promises written down in their official electoral manifestos.
