João Vasconcelos, (pictured) the Portimão councillor, newly elected to parliament as a Left Bloc MP, has been instrumental in the party proposal to ban tolls on the Algarve’s Via do Infante.
The 8th of December is the 4th anniversary of the tolling of the Algarve’s arterial route across the region and also the date that the Left Bloc again is proposing to parliament the abolition of tolls.
The UK continues to welcome the steady flow of Portuguese immigrants seeking work and a better standard of living than they feel is available in their homeland.
The numbers were up 22% between in the year to September 2015 according to the Department of Work and Pensions in the UK which is responsible for handing out National Insurance numbers to incoming workers.
The majority of Danes who went to the polls this Thursday rejected the idea of deepening their participation in the EU.
The referendum proposed opting in to the EU’s justice and home affairs legislation, while allowing Denmark to select which regulations it would adopt.
EU regulators are to investigate tax deals between McDonald's and Luxembourg which enabled the U.S. chain to escape paying taxes on European franchise royalties from 2009, a move which could lead to hefty back taxes for the company.
The EC’s antitrust regulators said that they would launch the probe into arrangements which could be defined as ‘illegal state aid.’
The chief executive of TAP, Fernando Pinto has been at the 41st Congress of the Portuguese Association of Travel Agencies in Albufeira and hinted strongly that a partnership with Irish carrier Ryanair was more than just a rumour.
Pinto said that all the airline’s routes are under review but would not be drawn on the proposed removal of TAP long-haul flights to and from Oporto which has caused a degree of turbulence with passengers in the north of the country and Galicia.
For those not exactly thrilled that Adele is coming to Portugal next May, an alternative is at hand with the announcement that British heavy metal veterans Iron Maiden will return next year to with their 'The Book of Souls' album, released in September.
The venue is the Meo Arena in Lisbon and the band will perform on 11 July, 2016
Adolph Hitler’s notorious autobiographical book, “Mein Kampf”, will again be available to the public for the first time since WWII.
An annotated edition is to be printed in Germany and will be for sale by the early part of January, according to Andreas Wirsching, director of the Institute of Contemporary History (IFZ) in Munich, which has been working on the project since 2009.
Spain is riding the crest of a wave of substantially increased tourist numbers.
A record 60.8 million people visited the country between January and October.
