Portugal’s Minister for Plastic Bags is delighted at the public response to his Green Tax of 10 cents a bag, saying today that he is "very positive" about the first month’s results.
The Environment Minister, Jorge Moreira da Silva, said that shoppers had changed their behaviour and have come up with other ways of transporting shopping other than in the plastic bags that used to given away by many supermarkets.
Italy, in the frontline for illegal migrants, has proposed establishing a system of reception centres in North Africa to screen those trying to reach Europe.
It believes there should be three facilities, run internationally, in countries such as Niger, Tunisia and Sudan to vet refugees and economic migrants.
A police officer murdered his mother-in-law and managed to evade road blocks set up around Faro.
The GNR and PSP set up the road blocks on Tuesday evening after shotgun blasts killed the 68-year-old woman and injured the policeman’s wife at a property the women shared in the regional capital.
France’s far-right Front National party is facing a corruption investigation into financial irregularities in the European Parliament.
Allegations have been made that it fraudulently paid as much as €7.5 million to 20 assistants.
Portugal’s Prime Minster has gone as far as ‘deeply regretting’ his failure to pay his social security debt on time but cannot bring himself to apologise.
The PM "deeply regrets" his errors when faced with evidence that he failed to pay social security during years of self-employment, but said that the slate now was clean and he has no debt to the tax office or the social security department.
A tracking device is reported to have been found in the car of a British woman who is suing the police in the UK.
According to the German newspaper Die Tageszeitung, the device was wrapped in tape and found near a wheel of her car while she was in Spain.
The pound has climbed to its highest level against the euro in more than seven years, passing €1.40 and giving a welcome boost to the Algarve as British holidaymakers take advantage of their buying power.
Compared to a year ago, British visitors changing £100 will get an extra €22 to spend and the region's tourism industry is changing from a mood of quiet confidence to one of great expectations.
The first deep water oil well to be sunk off the Alentejo coast will be started this autumn or early in 2016, according to the Chief Executive of Galp.
The cost of the drilling is expected to be in excess of €90 million with the probability of success of 20%.
