Last year more than 2.3 million first residence permits were issued altogether by countries in the European Union to people who were not EU citizens
The statistics cover permits issued to a person for the first time and include both short-term and long-term permits.
The Court of Auditors has been analysing Portugal’s long list of recklessly expensive and poor value Public-private Partnerships that are financing road contracts and has concluded that they leave the taxpayer exposed to limitless liabilities.
More formally, the auditors ‘admit the possibility that the State is likely to have an increased burden’ especially with the major road repairs needed on the Silver Coast motorway which the taxpayer must pay for.
The current coalition leader, Prime Minister Passos Coelho met the President of the Republic today and after a half hour session told reporters that for reasons of stability, he fully expects to be reappointed.
Passos Coelho said it was essential that he was appointed quickly as the current political hiatus is no good for anyone.
French president Francois Hollande is attempting to capture votes for his Socialist party in a last ditch effort before regional elections in December.
He has been reaching out to voters in groups outside the usual catchment area for the Socialists, including hunters, farmers, and the police.
A poorly thought out new law has created a risk to members of the public who try and cheat.
The latest law designed to help consumers may backfire as it requires sellers to exchange gas bottles of any brand and weigh and to compensate customers for any liquid gas still inside the bottle.
High winds and torrential periods of rain have been blamed for the collapse of a car park warehouse roof in Olhão.
Roofing materials landed on and damaged 28 vehicles parked securely below.
Fifty years after a plane carrying nuclear weapons crashed in Spain, the site is to be cleared of contamination.
A US air force B-52 bomber with four hydrogen bombs on board collided with another military plane during mid-air refuelling. It crashed in Palomares, south-east Almeira, in January 1966, killing seven of the 11 crew.
The Algarve’s tourism workers who have keep the region’s hotels and restaurants running at full capacity this season have had enough.
Without a pay rise since 2007, the union has issued a strike notice for next Wednesday "for the defence of rights and the immediate increase in wages."
