Time-sensitive work to add a cycle and pedestrian lane alongside the existing bridge to Faro Island has come to a grinding halt.
Traffic is being channelled into one lane to and from the island as there is a large section of the road cut away but there is no sign of workmen pressing ahead gamely to complete the job before the tourist season starts in earnest.
Unemployment in Portugal was recorded as 12.3% in February this year, down from 13.5% the previous February.
This was higher than the eurozone average of 10.3%.
Spain’s acting prime minister has vowed to alter the country’s working hours by reverting to Greenwich Mean Time for a “better quality of life”.
Mariano Rajoy vowed that if he becomes the next prime minister, he will ensure that the working day would end by 6pm.
The six crew members of the fishing vessel Avô Melro, which ran aground early on Monday near Arrifana beach, Aljezur, have been rescued by the crew of a Portuguese Navy EH-101 Merlin helicopter, according to Carvalho Pinto, the captain of the Port of Lagos.
Pinto reported that the six crew members were all safe and sound at the airbase at Montijo where the aircraft landed by 9:05 a.m..
France is to detail 3,000 undercover armed guards to patrol French SNCF trains.
The move was announced on Sunday by SNCF’s director along with other measures, such as increasing the SNCF security budget by 50% to some €400 million and the installation of more metal detector gates and CCTV cameras which can automatically detect suspicious behaviour.
Anti-corruption organisation Transparency International has called for immediate action by world leaders to stop secret companies used by individuals and public officials to hide their wealth, often illicitly gained.
Transparency International wants the international community to act immediately to adopt transparency laws to outlaw secret companies.
The Panama Papers have been released representing an unprecedented blow to those using offshore tax havens for their financial advantage while hoping to avoid scrutiny.
The huge database has revealed the offshore links of some of the world’s most prominent figures.
A Lisbon solicitor, the exotically named Aurora Boaventura, has been covering up a dirty secret.
Far from acting for the State in collecting monies due and passing on funds from seized goods and properties, she has been altering paying-in details to her own financial benefit.
