There are now 34,000 local accommodation properties registered in Portugal, according to the Secretary of State for Tourism, Ana Mendes Godinho who claims the effort to supervise unregistered properties is "under way."
The complex and highly disliked Alojamento Local scheme has been in operation since 2008 with amendments in 2014, but over 70% of properties rented out to tourists remain unregistered, despite successive governments claiming the ‘big purge’ on illegal lettings is starting.
Portugal ever-smiley Prime Minister, António Costa, said today that 2017 may be viewed with "enhanced confidence."
The PM says that the country "is nearing the end of a fiscal year of excellence, where it was possible to fulfill the commitments made with the Portuguese to return families' incomes and create conditions for investment."
Madrid’s regional government is to double the compensation money it gives to farmers whose animals have been killed by wolves.
The area surrounding the Spanish capital is characterised by mountains, valleys, forests, pastures and farmlands.
The deadline for consumers to move their electricity supply account from EDP to one of the free market service providers had until Friday 25th November 2016 to make the change.
There’s good news for those who failed to choose a new supplier since the market was deregulated in 2006, as a Communist Party proposals was accepted by parliament on 25th November 2016, giving households until the end of 2020 before they have to make a choice.
Portugal’s child porn pedophiles, online scammers and internet fraudsters are advised that a new police unit to combat all forms of cybercrime is now operational.
The Judicial Police now runs a National Unit to Combat Cybercrime and Technological Crime, replacing the National Unit for Investigation of Computer Crime which never functioned after its high-profile launch by the Passos Coelho government in 2015.
The president of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, António Domingues, and six members of his newly formed board have resigned as they remained unwilling to lodge their personal income and asset declarations, as is normal for those in significant positions in State-owned companies.
A formal notice today was received by the Securities Market Commission (CMVM), leaving the Finance Minister’s reputation badly damaged.
Denmark has taken another step in combating excessive food waste.
Following its success in selling expired food items, the supermarket Wefood in Copenhagen has opened a second branch in the capital just nine months after it became Denmark’s first ever food surplus supermarket.
At least a hundred people joined in a protest march between the town hall and the municipal market of Vila Real de Santo António against the decision of the council to privatise waste collection, street cleaning and the domestic supply of water.
The protest was convened by the Local and Regional Administration Workers' Union, Public Companies, Concessionaires and the like (STAL) and brought together union leaders, locals, council workers and workers at the municipal company, Sociedade de Gestão Urbana, which currently runs the services that the council aims to privatise.
