Portugal last year granted 26,593 first-time residence permits to individuals who originated from countries outside the EU.
This was part of the 2.3 million such permits granted in all of the EU’s 28 countries to people from non-EU nations.
Those issued by Portugal were equivalent to 2.5% per thousand inhabitants.
October 31 is the date on which paper returns must reach HMRC for tax year 2013/14 (April 6, 2013 to April 5, 2014).
Late filing will result in a penalty of £100, irrespective of whether there is or isn’t any tax to pay.
Brazil’s incumbent president, Dilma Rousseff, has retained the presidency for a second term in a close vote of 51.6%.
Ms Rousseff, 66, won the closely-fought election with Aécio Neves, the leader of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party.
The game of cat and mouse continues in Olhão as once again enraged locals have removed the fencing each side of the railway line at the pedestrian crossing that the railway company is intent on closing off.
Refer, the government rail company, decided to fence off the popular pedestrian crossing, assuming that locals would use the nearby underpass, and sent in its contractors to erect a fence and remove the original barriers that stopped bicycles whizzing across the railway line.
‘Algarve Encanta,' a promotion by the Algarve Tourist Board, hits the road again this month in its fourth roadshow.
Lisbon, Coimbra and Oporto will host more than 300 travel agents and opinion leaders, aiming to bring the attractiveness of the Algarve region to the country’s main cities.
Volunteers working at the council’s kennels in Lagos claim that animals held there are being regularly mistreated and neglected.
One of the volunteers, Matilde Ramos, said the mistreatment and lack of assistance given to an animal hit by a vehicle earlier this month prompted complaints to the police and to the Lagos Public Prosecution against the municipal vet.
Banco Comercial Português (BCP Millennium) was the only one of three Portuguese banks examined that failed the latest stress tests conducted by the European Central Bank and the European Banking Authority.
Caixa Geral de Depósitos and Banco Português Investimento passed the tests.
Despite Portugal’s insistence that it discovered much of the unknown world during the period called The Discoveries, it has puzzled many visitors to the Algarve that there is no appropriate museum, display or information centre to let the public know of these achievements.
At last an entrepreneur has taken it upon himself to fill the gap left by successive councils and ministries by setting up a series of waxwork displays to explain the important role that Portugal’s explorers, mercenaries and traders played in opening and maintaining trade links with Africa, India and the Far East.
