An inspector in the Judicial Police, serving in the National Anti-Corruption Unit, found himself among 19 people arrested on suspicions of ... corruption.
The inspector's sepciality was stopping the circulation of counterfeit credit cards and counterfeit currency.
Tavira council decided in 2014 to designate certain areas of the city for urban renewal, a tactic that has paid off well, attracting private real estate investment in excess of €3 million at a cost to the council of well under €100,000.
The creation of an Urban Renewal Area in downtown Tavira allowed the council to obtain EU funds to repair parts of the historic center and as well as attract the private investment.
Morocco's National Agency for the Development of Aquaculture (ANDA) and the University of Algarve are studying the best way they can cooperate in producing farmed fish which is an undeveloped sector in Morocco, according to ANDA's director Maarouf Majida.
The director said he wants exponentially to increase the current Moroccan annual output of 700 tons aquaculture fish and that this was the reason for his two day visit to the Algarve region during which he aimed to collect information and promote joint projects and scientific investigation.
Sanctions apparently were off the agenda at today’s meeting between Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa and the hard-to-please Polish President of the European Council Donald Tusk, but the PM said that targets will be met this year and his view is that all will be well so there's no need for sanctions at all, they would just make things worse.
They did admit to discussing the United Kingdom and a possible Brexit vote on Thursday, which could be "the first step in a European disintegration process," according to Tusk who noted the growing dissatisfation from within Europen member states for those that are running the European Union.
A survey released on Monday indicates that 64% of Spaniards want the UK to stay in the EU.
A majority of Europeans on the continent reject Brexit. Over 54% believe that Britain should not leave.
Two engineers from the Swiss manufacturer of an aircraft that disintegrated in mid-air arrived at the Alentejo crash zone on Tuesday 21st June. Jérôme Louis, the Belgian pilot of the Pilatus PC6 died as he remained in the aeroplane after his skydiving passengers jumped.
The accident on Sunday evening is being investigated by the Portuguese accident authorities. The pilot died and four of the passengers suffered injuries after a sky-diving trip over Ferreira do Alentejo, Beja turned into a nightmare.
Two women from the Five Star Movement (M5S) have been voted in as mayors of Rome and the northern city of Turin.
Virginia Raggi (pictured) won 67% of the vote in Rome, defeating the candidate from the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) of PM Matteo Renzi.
Prosecutors in Braunschweig, Germany are investigating the former VW CEO Martin Winterkorn and one other senior exec over suspected market manipulation relating to the diesel emissions scandal.
Winterkorn quit his job last September the day after VW admitted that 11 million cars had rigged systems which let them pass emission tests.
