The Minister of Agriculture, Assunção Cristas applauds the increase in the number of young farmers in the Algarve who had submitted projects under the Rural Development Programme.
In the year to July there have been 978 agricultural projects approved, 427 from young farmers representing 44% of the total, according to the Regional Directorate of Agriculture and Fisheries in the Algarve.
Between 10,000 and 13,000 people in the UK are victims of slavery.
The analysis is the first time the Home Office has put out an official estimate of the scale of the situation.
The German carrier Lufthansa will continue its strike action, going out on Monday and Tuesday.
This will make the ninth walkout for Europe’s biggest airline since April.
Former politician turned criminal, Duarte Lima has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for aggravated fraud and money laundering.
The summary from the group of judges, led by Filipa Valentim, took four hours and ends the long-running and intricate ‘Operation Homeland’ fraud case.
Two directors of BES, who moved across to Novo Banco when the failed bank was divided, have been made arguidos as a result of information obtained during Thursday’s widespread searches of homes and business premises in the Espírito Santo corruption and money laundering case.
Former BES boss Ricardo Salgado had his Cascais luxury home searched along with 33 other private properties and six offices of companies in the financial sector.
The two countries were found to have breached eurozone rules, but rather than punishing them, the European Commission has given each until next spring to implement sweeping structural reforms.
“As a new commission, we’re not seeing it as a priority to punish countries,” said Valdis Dombrovskis of Latvia, the new vice-president in charge of the euro (and good luck to him).
The unemployment rate in the eurozone was stable at 11.5%, unchanged from September, according to Eurostat.
This has left 18,395,000 people in the euro region without paid employment, of whom 688,000 were in Portugal.
Eurozone inflation dropped in November to 0.3% across the region, down from 0.4% in October.
The European Central Bank considers anything below 1% to be in its deflation "danger zone". Its target is inflation close to, but below 2% but this was last the case at the beginning of 2013 and has been falling since a 3% peak in late 2011.
