Leigh Day, the lawyers for two British citizens banned from voting in the EU referendum - as they have lived outside the UK, but within the EU, for over 15 years - will take their fight to the Supreme Court next Tuesday (24 May 2016) after the Court of Appeal upheld a High Court ruling rejecting their legal challenge to the ’15 year rule’.
 
Last month the High Court rejected a legal challenge by 94-year-old Harry Shindler, a WWII veteran who lives in Italy, and lawyer and Belgian resident Jacquelyn MacLennan against the UK Government’s decision to exclude Britons from voting if they have lived in the EU, but outside the UK, for more than 15 years.

A renovated steam train starts full service on June 4th, taking passengers along the Douro riverside.

The historic Douro train programme started in the late 90s with steam locomotive 0186, built in 1925 by Henschel & Son, pulling five beautiful wooden carriages.

French nationals bought more Portuguese property in the first quarter of 2016 than any other group of foreigners.

Despite the drubbing they got in Portugal in the early 1800s as Napoleon's dreams were shattered, the French surpassed the British and Chinese in their demand for a place in the sun far away from the French tax system and the misery served out by Parisian restaurateurs.

A Portuguese civil engineer is among the dead after EgyptAir’s Flight MS804 en route from Paris to Cairo late on Wednesday went off the radar and crashed in the Mediterranean.

The flight had carrying 66 people on board, including two small children and a baby, seven crew members and three members of the company's security team.

The EU's Economic Affairs Commissioner, Pierre Moscovici, (pictured) has performed a U-turn to the benefit of Spain and Portugal by postponing a decision on fining the two countries for running excessive budget deficits.

“We have concluded that this is not the right moment economically or politically to take this step,” said Moscovici today.

The German pharmaceutical giant Bayer has put in an unexpected bid to take over the US group Monsanto, the biggest seed company in the world.

The two have said they have met in a ‘private discussion’ of a negotiated acquisition, emphasizing that negotiations are only exploratory.

Germany is holding steadfast in its opposition to debt relief for Greece.

Threadbare Greece has been pushing to get its EU creditors to write off at least some of its debts, arguing that it can not sustain its heavy loan repayments.

The Algarve's court prosecutors have listed various crimes committed in the Algarve during the first quarter of 2016, one in four was for drunk driving.

Second on the list was driving without a license, third was violence, fourth was theft and burglary and the fifth was disobeying an office of the law.