Spain certainly appears to know how to foster national unity. The country’s public prosecutors are expected to charge the president of Catalonia for holding a vote on independence in defiance of a court injunction.
The region’s leader, Artur Mas, is likely to be charged with disobeying a court order and misusing government funds.
The EU’s new policy to deal with the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean has come under fire.
Its Operation Triton is to support the Italian Navy’s Mare Nostrum programme which is winding down.
Fun and games at Moviflor, the furniture store that agreed to a Special Revitalisation Process in the Commercial Court of Lisbon in December 2013, and then continued to treat its staff like excess stuffing.
Wage arrears mounted despite court instructions to clear them. Not even the redundancy payments were paid as agreed under the special plan to help save the business.
The Algarve is to host a €220 million investment in solar energy, "the largest ever in Portugal" according to media reports and the rural council of Alcoutim is the chosen location.
The Portuguese Environment Agency has received an application for the licencing of the photovoltaic plant which will produce 200 megawatts from thousands of panels on an 800 hectare site.
Portuguese families continue to face serious difficulties in paying their mortgages.
According to data from the Central Credit Register of the Bank of Portugal, more than 660,000 Portuguese families currently are in default on their mortgage repayments.
During the 2013 key tourist season of July and August, Hugo Gonçalves decided to occupy himself with robbing tourists at gun point.
The victims he chose were predominantly women and he attacked them in the early hours or near to dawn as they returned from 'a good night out.'
One result of the global recession has been the increase in child poverty in developed countries.
Unicef reports that the rate has gone up in more than half of the developed world since 2008, bringing the total number of children there in poverty to an estimated 76.5 million.
New suspects are to be interviewed by Portuguese police in the Madeleine McCann enquiry, two of them are British expats who were living in Portugal at the time of the girl’s disappearance in 2007.
The two British men have been declared formal suspects, or arguidos, and local police will be questioning them later this month and will obtain DNA samples.
