Assunção Cristas has take over as president of the CDS-PP People’s Party* leaving Paulo Portas wiping away tears as he heads for a change of career after 16 years.
Cristas, the former coalition Minister for Agriculture, is the first woman to run the party and is the seventh leader since the CDS - Partido Popular was founded on 19th July, 1974 in the aftermath of the Carnation Revolution.
Portugal’s former Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho advised his old finance minister to take the job at Arrow Global.
The former Minister of Finance, Maria Luís Albuquerque, asked Pedro Passos Coelho what he thought about the job of non-exec director at the UK-based debt collector compared to other offers she claims to have received after she left office.
Portugal’s hospitality sector opened 46 new hotels last year but the number is tailing off as land prices rise and there is a feeling among investors that the market already is become saturated.
For 2017 there are plans for 13 more hotels just in Lisbon and in the current year, 29 more hotels are to be launched.
Asylum seekers are being asked to help clean the streets and parks of Italy’s northern city of Turin.
The scheme was launched by the city’s waste authority and city council and will let refugees waiting for their asylum claims to be processed the chance to work a six-hour shift each Saturday to empty bins, pick up litter and sweep leaves.
The Algarve’s anti-oil organisations today held a major event in Faro which included a march through the city's streets to protest at the government’s plans to turn the Algarve's offshore and onshore land into oil and gas production zones.
ASMAA, Allgrave, Tavira Em Transição, Faro Em Transição, Movimento Algarve Livre de Petróleo and more, each with their local supporters held a protest march and attended workshops and lectures.
Three regional elections in Germany on Sunday have dented the standing of Angela Merkel.
Her Christian Democrat (CDU) party lost two of the three states in the elections, according to exit polls.
Alisuper faces bankruptcy for the second time as its insolvency application has been torpedoed by its lenders yet costs keep rolling on, including staff wages which are months in arrears.
A workers’ demonstration in February had little effect on a management struggling to cope with €17 million owed to banks, the State and the stores' suppliers.
A 46-year-old Spanish woman was stopped and arrested at Faro airport yesterday for carrying over two kilos of cocaine.
The woman was detained by the Judicial Police on suspicion of drug trafficking and has been remanded in custody.
