Faro council, the Faro Motorcycle Club and the police have agreed that any police action at the International Bikers Festival in July will be focused on ‘prevention’ rather than ‘repression,’ according to the mayor today.
Mayor Rogério Bacalhau said this was the main conclusion of a meeting this week which included senior management from the PSP and GNR police forces.
Europe’s favourite search engine, Google, has been charged with monopoly abuse because of the way it promotes its shopping comparison service over others.
The charge comes after a five-year probe by the EU and could result in a trial and fines running into the billions.
The chairman of the Council for the Prevention of Corruption, Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins, gave a lecture to schoolchildren in Severim de Faria in Évora this week and concluded that little progress has been made in combating this ‘terrible phenomenon.’
Claiming there is a need for ‘simple and clear laws,’ Martins complained that the current legal system is too complex and actually encourages corruption and that criminal investigators must have available the tools required to take offenders to court and actually get convictions.
Portugal's stock market regulator, embroiled in a dispute with the Bank of Portugal over which of them should compensate BES investors, today said that its legal department had concluded that ‘good bank’ Novo Banco must stump up the refunds.
The regulator, CMVM, said that those who had bought bonds in BES branches, later to find they had bought shares in failing Grupo Espírito Santo companies, should be repaid from funds now held at Novo Banco.
House prices rose by 1.1% in the eurozone when comparing the last three months of 2014 with the same period in 2013.
The figures, provided by Eurostat, are national and do not break down by regions.
Spain is trying to cope with a 70% increase in the number of illegal migrants attempting to enter the country last year.
Caught last year while attempting to get into Spain illegally were 12,549 people, up from just 7,472 in 2013.
The new Minister of Internal Affairs today opened new facilities at the helicopter base to the south of Loulé.
The new building will allow civil protection and medical emergency services to operate with better facilities and coordination.
“To maximise revenue, to promote the Algarve as a tourist destination and to reduce sales costs” are the noble objectives of a new online sales website created by the Algarve’s hotels and tourist association.
The AHETA’s blub outlines the "increasing demands imposed by online holiday buyers, combined with new trends of tourism markets needing strategies to increase the exposure of hotels to digital customers, a segment which rapidly is growing in the worldwide holiday market."
