Anti-austerity protestors lobbed chips and mayonnaise at Belgium’s new prime minister.
Charles Michel, 39, (pictured) took office only in October as leader of a coalition which has promised to increase the retirement age to 67, end the usual cost-of-living raise next year and reduce public spending.
The European Commission has released a report in which the authors have been delicate in expressing that Brussels is quite aware that Portugal has really been making very little effort at all in reducing the burdensome number of employees on the state payroll.
The financial overspend created by the lack of government payroll savings has been ameliorated by record tax receipts from the public but this was not part of the agreed Troika plan and Portugal's government needs to address this imbalance.
A much relieved Algarve tourist board commented on figures released today showing record numbers of tourists had chosen the Algarve for their holidays this year, with the Spanish leading the charge.
Today’s data released by the National Statistics Institute was welcomed by the tourist board’s president Desidério Silva who said the region had achieved 'strengthened positive results' so far in 2014, with 15.5 million overnight stays for the year so far, i.e. until the end of October.
Magaluf, long popular with young people on drunken bar crawls, is to turn respectable and become a “mature resort”, promised officials in Majorca.
The transformation will happen by next summer, the Balearic government has declared.
Overall official unemployment figures for Portugal’s labour force fell 13.6% in the twelve months to the end of this November when compared to the figure in November 2013.
The number of unemployed registered in employment centres was 598,083 at the end of November, representing a decrease of 13.6% or 93,936 people over the same period in 2013.
The dog has become king in Britain, outstripping the popularity of cats for the first time in more than 20 years.
Statistics published by Dogs Trust Pet Food Manufacturers’ Association (PFMA) reveal that nearly 25% of British households include a dog with 8.9 million dogs now in Britain compared to 7.9 million cats.
Thermometers in the capital plunged to 1.9º C early this weekend and with the shortest day of the year nearly over, the coldest day of the year hit Lisbon with a shock as the 1.9ºC recorded was the lowest temperature for two decades in the capital.
"In December 1994, 1.3C was recorded," according to the Portuguese Institute of Meteorology.
Yogurt laced with alcohol has become a runaway success in Britain.
Strong sales of the UK’s first alcoholic yogurt catapulted the makers, The Collective, into the fastest-growing yogurt company in Britain.
