The two-month dispute over MyFerryLink has resulted in damage estimated to be as much as €2 million on one of the ferries they occupied.

The director of the Calais port said the industrial action has cost the port €10 million this summer.

Faro’s taxi drivers will be on strike on Tuesday, 8th September in protest at the threat to their income by web-based transport service Uber.

There also will be traffic impeding 'slow drive' protests in Faro, Lisbon and Oporto as the taxi drivers union ANTRAL starts to use industrial action to draw attention to its members’ plight.

Despite the chaos reported daily in the French port of Calais, P&O Ferries reported that August was its busiest month in 12 years.

The ferry company boarded nearly 1.2 million passengers in August and transported them between Dover and Calais.  The passenger load had not been this high since August 2003.

Guo Guangchang, the head of Chinese company Fosun, will only come to Portugal if he is assured the Novo Banco deal will go through and that he will be the new owner.

The current negotiations are said to be ‘technical’ and involve Lingjiang Xu, head of Fosun in Europe with advice from Magalhães Correia from Fidelidade, and experts from Morgan Stanley and KPMG representing the Chinese group.

The soon-to-be new owner of Barclays in Portugal, Spain’s Bankinter, wants to keep both the Barclays outlets and the workforce, according to the current Barclays management. 

The issue of staff and the possible rebranding of Barclays was raised at a meeting between unions and Barclays bank officials in advance of Bankinter taking over the network of 1,000 staff servicing 84 branches in Portugal.

Spanish people are being encouraged to take to the screen by submitting a short video of their daily lives.

The routine activities of Spaniards in the country and abroad will be assembled into a documentary.

Due largely to the euro’s depreciation against the pound, British tourists have contributed to excellent numbers holidaying in the Algarve this summer.

Algarve tourism has had the best August in eight years with an average occupancy rate per hotel room of 94.1%, an increase of 1.8% compared to the same period in 2014, according to the hoteliers association AHETA.

The French city appears to have acquired a reputation of being one of the dirtiest capitals in Europe, a place where rubbish and dog poo litter the streets, turning it from the City of Light to the City of Blight.

Now the authorities are relaunching a clean-up operation. Several prevention campaigns have had insufficient result, so the next step will be to up the fine for littering to €68.