The share of persons aged between 30 and 34 in the EU who have completed tertiary education has been constantly increasing.

In 2002, 24% accomplished it and this grew to 38% by 2014.

José Guilherme, the man who gave Ricardo Salgado €14 million out of the goodness of his heart after some informal investment advice, now is formally being investigated by Portugal’s prosecutors.
 
José Guilherme 'did not feel well enough' to travel to Lisbon from Angola to appear in front of the parliamentary committee looking in to the BES collapse, but was spotted in Lisbon having a haircut just days later.

Average unemployment in Portugal stands at 14% which was pretty much the same throughout the land.

The lowest rate was in the centre of the country and the highest on the Azores (see chart below).

The proposal by Lisbon’s mayor to charge a tax on inbound toruists may be illegal as European laws ban any national legislation that is discriminatory on the grounds of nationality.

Earlier this month, Portugal's national airports operator ANA surprised us all by stating that it will pay the ‘per head’ tax on tourists arriving at Lisbon airport and estimated that the cost for the next year would be between €3.6 million and €4.4 million.

The economy of France, the second largest in the euro region, remained in the doldrums in April with little sign of improvement.

This was against a backdrop of improved growth in the other large euro nations, although that registered in April was slightly weaker than in March.

The Secretary of State for Tourism gave a keynote speech in Faro yesterday at the 'Local Lodgings as an Asset to the Algarve Tourism Industry' seminar.

Adolfo Mesquita Nunes said that there are 140,000 private properties in the tourism rental market in Portugal and, far from discouraging them, he accepts that they are what tourists want and should be encouraged – and regulated.

The positive publicity surrounding all things Chinese continues as a report out today states that China’s tourists spend 3.2 times more in Portugal than those from Angola.

The data is from Global Blue, a company specialising in tourist shopping trends and will be used as further justification for the Golden Visa programme whose uptake has been almost exclusively from big-spending Chinese.

The President of the Civil Aviation Pilots' Union (SPAC) accuses the management of the state airline TAP of jeopardising the airline through years of mismanagement.

The pilots union has called a ten-day strike from May 1, and as the arguments spill over into the public domain, has accused TAP bosses of ‘ruinous management.’