Not only does it take up to 18 months for many Portuguese residents to receive their driving licence, the European Commission is taking court action against Portugal’s government for failing to get up-to-date with European driving licence legislation.
After warnings have been ignored, Portugal along with Estonia, Italy, Slovenia and the Czech Republic are still not integrated or linked to the Europe-wide driving licence system called RESPER.*
A Dutch man who has been behind bars for 12 years will have his appeal considered by Spain’s Supreme Court after new DNA evidence points to a British suspect.
Romano Liberto van der Dussen, then 30, was arrested in September 2003 in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol. Police accused him of severely beating and trying to rape three women.
Most of the 209 national Football Associations that make up FIFA, world football’s governing body, publish little or no information on what they do and how they spend their money despite the fact that they received more than $1 million each from FIFA in 2014, according to a new report from Transparency International.
With the corruption crisis still engulfing FIFA, Transparency International conducted research into the governance structures at FIFA’s member associations to see how much information is publicly available about how they operate.
The Algarve Platform Free of Oil (PALP) has filed a petition with over 7,000 names asking parliament to stop oil and gas exploration and drilling in the sea off the Algarve coastline.
Manuel Vieira of PALP said that the organisation’s petition was a major goal, “At the beginning we had some difficulty in making people reflect on this issue and understand the negative consequences that this project may have for the region, but this is changing."
Portugal’s Post Office is launching its new banking service in selected pilot branches from November 27th and aims to attract customers “from grandparents to grandchildren."
The idea is to offer "products that people need in their day-to-day lives," according to Luís Pereira Coutinho, Banco CTT’s Chief Executive.
Moody's has threatened to cut its credit rating for Novo Banco due to "major challenges" identified as a result of a poor performance in the recent European Central Bank stress test, the main one being a lack of capital.
The final decision will be taken after reviewing the plans to be submitted by Stock da Cunha, Novo Banco’s Chief Executive, who needs to rake in €1.4 billion from asset sales.
TAP employees have approved a motion against the recent sale of the state airline to the private company, Gateway.
According to José Augusto of the workers’ committee, the motion requesting the reversal of the TAP sale was approved by a large majority and pointed to "some irregularities" in the privatisation process.
Demand for building work in Portugal has not been sufficient to re-energise the construction sector which appears to be in serious decline.
For the month of September, construction work fell by 2.2% compared to August this year. This was the second largest drop of any eurozone country except Slovenia.
