Representatives from consuls and police forces from the UK, France, Germany, Brazil, Norway, Netherlands, Romania and Luxembourg have met the Algarve's regional police commad team in Faro to "prepare for a safe summer."

"The meeting aimed to strengthen relations between the Algarve's PSP police force and representatives of many of the countries from which visitors come to the Algarve, in order better to respond to the needs they may have during their stay in our country," said the PSP chief.

Despite having been caught out lying to the world about its emissions tests and suffering enormous losses as a result, German auto giant Volkswagen feels flush enough to be offering bonuses.

Staff are to receive a pre-tax bonus just shy of €4,000 for 2015. VW’s head of human resources said their very good team work in “the difficult situation” and “their strong commitment deserve to be recognised”.

The French mussel industry has been devastated by a mysterious condition which is killing the molluscs before they reach maturity.

Production is down by a whopping 95% in the key growing area of western France and by 60% in other principal production areas.

Portugal's public prosecutors have succeeded in presenting compelling cases for each of the 17 suspects in the Golden Visa investigation into corruption and peddling influence: all are to be tried.

The accused include the former Minister of Home Affairs, Miguel Macedo, whose protestations of innocence and his “the buck stops here” resignation was followed by his arrest.

As from today, Sunday 15th of May, Lisbon’s airport officially will have the name Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport in tribute to one of Portugal’s fearless, outspoken and brutally murdered politicians of the dark Salazar years.

The ceremony marking the name change was attended by the President of the Republic of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the Prime Minister António Costa, the mayor of Lisbon Fernando Medina, and members of Humberto Delgado’s family.

Portugal’s Prime Minister António Costa on Saturday inaugurated the Dunes Walk which unites Quarteira and Vilamoura, a project that he called "symbolic on several levels."

The PM said the new walkway showed the sort of effort put in to developing the Algarve’s natural resources and environment.

The ‘debate’ over next month’s referendum on whether Britain should stay in or leave the European Union heated up so much this week that it is starting to look like civil war.

It seems to be tearing apart the British Tory government and indeed the whole country. A wider worry in the event of a Brexit is the collateral damage in Portugal and other EU countries.

The TV station that may well have hastened Banif’s collapse could end up in court as a report has been lodged with the Public Prosecutor which will decide if there is a case to answer.

TVi’s broadcast on December 13, 2015 resulted in a run on the bank with depositors withdrawing €1 billion in the subsequent few days.