Socialist MPs from a parliamentary health committee investigating the Algarve’s health service are “deeply concerned” at the deteriorating situation despite regional management’s claims that all is well.
The committee members spent two days visiting various of the Algarve’s health departments, meeting doctors, nurses and managers and concluded that generally things were worse than in 2011.
Expat tax affairs will be opened to greater scrutiny when 93 governments begin exchanging information about bank accounts.
New regulations mean that within two years, tax authorities will automatically exchange information on everyone irrespective of whether tax has been paid or not.
The lineup to buy Novo Banco is shrinking further as the People's Bank of China will no longer be bidding, nor will Spain’s Banco Popular
Of the seven candidates who made non-binding bids for the purchase of Novo Banco, there are five left to enter the next stage which involves making sealed bids for the bank which arose from the wreckage of BES last August.
The UK is to witness the closing down of 216 out-of-town supermarkets and DIY stores.
In addition, plans for about 100 new store developments have been scrapped.
Portugal's Ministry of Agriculture is waiting for the European authorities to decide on the safety of glyphosate, the herbicide widely used in Portugal and which has been classified as potentially carcinogenic by the World Health Organization.
The ministry also has suggested that the conclusions of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) that recently rated Roundup, as "possibly or probably" carcinogenic to humans, may have been hasty.
The curtain may be coming down on a festival in Spain where some 10,000 British university students revel in getting drunk and partying.
Salou, a resort town on the Costa Dorada, has hosted the Saloufest for the last 15 years but it has come a long way since its inception as a sports festival over the Easter holiday period.
Marilu Santana chained herself to the stairwell railings in Clube Praia da Rocha, Portimão, 15 days ago in protest at the management company's refusal to pay overdue wages to her and other temporary workers who all have been waiting since the end of last year’s tourist season.
After 15 days and nights Santana is victorious as company administrator Paulo Martins has given a written undertaking that Green Stairs will pay up.
A world record was achieved by Costa Rica which so far this year has powered itself exclusively by renewable energy.
The Central American country is admired for its green energy policies. Now it has outstripped all other nations in the world by using only renewable energy to generate power from the beginning of 2015.
