A complaint against Venice has been taken to the EU for gouging visitors.
The two-tier system of charging means that tourists pay far more than Venetian locals for services. It is being claimed that this is in breach of the EU regulations on equality.
A bottle of vintage Ferreira port from the year of the Battle of Waterloo has been auctioned by Sotheby’s, smashing previous records by achieving a hammer price of €6,800.
The Vintages Collection auction was held at the Tower of London this Thursday as part of a celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo; no French were present.
Greybull Capital LLP, controlled by the secretive Meyohas brothers from their Knightsbridge offices, is reported to have gone through the figures and is finalising a bid for TAP.
The airline, owned by the Portuguese state on behalf of the taxpayer, is up for sale despite 2014 losses and a current strike by pilots which may knock as much as €40 million from its 2015 turnover.
The Finance Ministry has no shame in paying its tax collection staff a percentage commission for all money retrieved by methods of ‘coercive collection.’
This year a delighted Minster of Finance has agreed a 5% commission for Finanças staff meaning that extra taxes will have to be raised to recoup the 5% she has just given away.
David Cameron as head of the UK's Conservative Party remains prime minister for another five year term.
This was the decision of the voters in the UK election held yesterday, May 7th.
Portuguese MEP Nuno Melo has questioned the legality of Lisbon’s tourist tax in a series of written questions put to Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission.
Melo asks whether competition rules are being violated and what penalties may be imposed on Portugal if the tourist tax indeed is illegal.
Portugal’s Minister of the Economy, Pires de Lima, said today that the current pilots strike may cost TAP €35 million.
The minister renewed appeals to the airline’s pilots to go back to work and not get involved in the 'radical strategy' adopted by the Civil Aviation Pilots' Union thus confirming his unsuitablility for handling delicate labour relations.
At long last the blatant thievery and corruption suspected for years at the government’s department of Infrastructure and Equipment (DGIE) has led to its former director-general being arrested and charged with receiving kick-backs from contractors.
State prosecutors suspect João Alberto Correia of running a self-enrichment scheme that may have netted him upwards of €1 million at the taxpayers’ expense.
