Political parties in the UK, anxious to attract voters for the May general election, have been filling the airwaves with promises. But not all have given consideration to expat votes.
The Conservative Party has said it would restore the right to vote for British citizens for life. This is dependent on it winning the election.
The petition raised by the Algarve Without Tolls organisation has been rejected by the government and will not be debated in parliament.
The 6,500 signature petition against the continuation of tolls on the Via do Infante motorway was kicked out by the parliamentary commission for Economic and Public Works on the grounds that a case "has already been debated following the exercise of the right of petition."
In its continuing attempt to staunch its losses, Sainsbury’s has decided to turn a considerable amount of food space inside its shops into areas selling other goods.
It has selected 1.5 million square feet of space, equivalent to nearly 40 supermarkets, which will no longer be used for grocery items.
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.
