The city’s new major, Ada Colau, is pursuing her goal of limiting the number of visitors and curbing any expansion of unlicensed accommodation for tourists.
Barcelona is the most popular tourist destination in Spain, with 27 million visiting last year. Tourist numbers for the first half of this year have already broken records.
In August 2009 a section of cliff collapsed killing five people at Maria Luísa beach in Albufeira despite signs warning of the risk of rock falls.
Early this Thursday morning a massive section of cliff above the same beach sheared off and crashed into the sand but luckily this time there was nobody underneath.
A series of strikes in September have been called by three Spanish airport workers unions. The first will be on next Friday.
The strikes are hit Madrid airport for four days in September – 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th.
The Portuguese government is to take in "around 1,500 refugees" over the next two years.
The Minister of the Presidency and Parliamentary Affairs claimed today that Portugal "has been at the forefront of European solidarity" and confirmed that Portugal will make arrangements for about 1,500 Middle Eastern refugees from the current conflicts.
Portugal’s Competition Authority has 30 days in which to decide whether or not to approve the acquisition of TAP by Gateway, the consortium set up by entrepreneurs David Neeleman and Humberto Pedrosa.
On Monday, the European Commission concluded that it did not need to get involved in the TAP deal and has handed the process back to Portugal.
Spanish police announced the arrest of the Dutch ringleaders of an international drugs network that brought cocaine into Portugal and Spain.
Last September’s arrests and the seizure of 1,300 kilos of the drug in Tavira was just the start of an international operation that finally has tracked down and arrested the Dutchman who was behind the well disciplined ring and his second-in-command.
Chinese authorities clamped down further on Macau, the country’s gambling mecca, with 17 arrests on suspicion of money laundering.
The police raided a number of pawn shops as well as jewellery and telecommunication shops which they believed were involved in fraudulent use of bank cards and the illicit flow of money from China.
An environmental impact study for the proposed wastewater treatment plant at Companeira, Portimão has been released for public consultation until 11 September, according to the Portuguese Environment Agency.
This is the same €12 million treatment plant for which a tender was launched by Águas do Algarve in January 2014 with a target date to award the contract given as July 2014.
