Britain’s House of Lords issued a report on Wednesday which addressed the post-Brexit concerns of expats living and working in the UK.
The French ambassador, Sylvie Bermann, had told the Lords’ subcommittee on justice that the French community in Britain not only has “a number of questions” about the consequences of Brexit but also has registered “great uncertainty”.
Budget carrier easyJet has announced a raft of new routes for 2017, including several to and from Portugal.
From June it will be possible to board flights in Faro heading for the French cities of Nice or Lille.
In a laudable move involving good sense and leadership, the mayor of Lagos has decided that the residents of Bensafrim should have drastic reductions to their water bills as the council appears unable to maintain anything close to a regular supply.
The discount starts immediately, will be shown on December invoices and will last until the new supply pipeline comes into full operation.
Portimão's one-man crime wave has been arrested, to the relief of many locals whose properties and cars have been targeted by the 17-year-old teenager.
The youngster had been out and about, robbing people, burgling houses and stealing from cars in the Portimão area, causing deep concern to locals due to the sheer number of crimes committed in a short space of time.
The Algarve is to have its regional ambulance control centre reinstated.
The National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM) control centre for the region was closed in 2012 as part of a cost-cutting exercise by the Passos Coelho government with the loss of local jobs and local control.
A British Court has decided that the Portuguese Treasury must pay €1.8 billion to Banco Santander and that the ‘swaps’ contracts agreed between the Spanish bank and some of Portugal’s State-owned public transport companies are valid.
Portugal’s government has appealed time and time again against earlier rulings that the ‘swaps’ contracts were legal, this is the fifth such court hearing, and is to appeal yet again, this time to UK’s Supreme Court despite legal bills already running into the millions.
The former Prime Minister of Portugal, António Guterres, was sworn in on Monday December 12th as Secretary General of the United Nations, its ninth leader in the organisation’s 71-year history.
The former head of the UN’s refugee programme was confirmed as the choice as the new Secretary General by the UN General Assembly in October and officially takes over from Ban Ki-moon on Jan 1st next year.
Portugal's attorney general's office has confirmed that officials are conducting searches in Portugal and Switzerland as part of a corruption investigation into plasma* supplies to the country's national health service.
Magistrates and police have searched around 40 homes, business premises and the offices of the Health Ministry and the National Health Service, and two locations in Switzerland, all part of the 'máfia do sangue,' or 'blood mafia.'
