Legislation is being prepared to make Portugal's complaints procedure available online, as opposed to the current system of filling in a complaints book in the store about which the complaint is being made.
Various consumer and trade associations have been invited by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs to participate in the process of getting the legislation right before presenting it for debate.
Uber, the application for hailing taxis, was subjected to a police raid of its offices in Paris.
The raid was part of an investigation into the company’s ride-sharing service and was conducted at the behest of the Paris prosecutor’s officer.
The EU finally has taken a new step to smash the people-trafficking rings which shove illegal migrants on perilous voyages to reach Europe across the Mediterranean Sea.
Europol, the EU police agency, has set up a maritime intelligence unit, called “Jot Mare” standing for Joint Operational Team. Its job will be to collect and analyse intelligence on smugglers and to work with the EU border agency Frontex and national police to stop them the gangs.
The social media website Facebook said it will soon be possible for users to send money to friends through Facebook’s Messenger mobile app.
The money transfer system will use bank debit cards of users, and may take up to three days depending on the banks used, Facebook said.
Lufthansa pilots are in the middle of another two-day strike.
It is the second time this year that the pilots have refused to work and the twelfth in a row over the last two years.
At last it is possible to report that the number of people employed in the eurozone increased in the final three months of 2014 when compared to the previous quarter
The faintest possible rise of 0.1% was recorded for the region, according to national account estimates published by Eurostat.
The IMF today issued a carefully worded statement that Portugal’s managerial class could do with distinct improvement.
"There is a need for good managers to increase worker productivity," according to the IMF which recommends that the government must "review the effectiveness and the extent of the programmes to promote management skills in Portugal," which as it well knows are close to zero.
The latest cunning plan from the Ministry of Health is to tackle the yawning gap in the number of doctors in Portugal by hiring family physicians from Spanish regions along the border.
This kind offer has been seen as particularly unattractive by Portugal's Iberian neighbours as the money on offer, just €2,746 a month is half the salary that doctors can earn in Spain.
