Infraestucturas de Portugal says it did not authorise the destruction of Fonte de Boliqueime’s iconic well which has been removed to make way for yet another new roundabout on the Algarve’s EN125.
The company has received a stiff letter from Loulé’s mayor, Vitor Aleixo, in which he accuses the company of an "affront to public memory."
António Costa and his 17 ministers have delivered their 2015 income statements to the Constitutional Court, with the exception of the Agriculture Minister, Capoulas Santos, whose submission is late.
In 2015, António Costa earned €63,457 from employment and €91,875 from self-employment, a total of €155,332.
The Health Minister Adalberto Fernandes, a medical Doctor, declared a salaried income of €167,000 and consultancy income of over €13,000.
Portugal’s Arbitration Court has ordered the National Civil Protection Authority to pay Heliportugal more than €2.7 million for the maintenance and operation costs of Portugal's fire-fighting helicopters.
There were two separate decisions but both amounted to the same thing, the Civil Protection Authority has not been making contracted payments.
A former French minister responsible for fighting fraud has begun to stand trial for tax fraud.
Jérôme Cahuzac became President Hollande’s budget minister in 2012. His remit included fraud and he launched an aggressive drive to punish rich people who failed to pay tax.
International body, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has drawn up a list of the worst countries in Europe in which to work - Portugal lies in fourth place due to high unemployment rates and low wages.
The OECD looked at wages, occupational safety and unemployment rates in showing that Portugal was marginally better than Greece, Spain and Turkey in a list of 36 countries led by Norway, Switzerland and Iceland.
French legislation has come into effect making it illegal for supermarkets to destroy any food which is approaching its best-before date.
Instead, the supermarkets will have to give it away to charities and action groups.
With the numbers of mafia-related murders on the rise, Italy’s interior minister has called for the army to be sent in.
Clans within the Camorra crime syndicate are involved in an upsurge of violence as they fight over drug dealing territory.
For the first time since its reunification in 1990, more people are moving to former East Germany than are leaving it.
Since the Berlin wall came down and East Germany as a country disappeared, some 1.8 million people left the east in search of jobs and better housing in the west.
