A Russian monk has been skipping off to Italy to learn the secrets involved in making cheeses.
After Russia banned the import of food from Western countries in response to Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, citizens have felt the loss of certain delicacies.
Brazil has been offering a place of refuge for growing numbers of illegal migrants who are seeking a better life or escaping persecution.
While European countries are desperately trying to cope with the influx of migrants, those who reach the north-west corner of Brazil are being accepted.
The Government said today that it was making "every effort" to prevent having to pay the €4.5 million EU fine applied for because of a lack of sewage treatment facilities in Vila Real de Santo António and up north in Matosinhos.
"Regarding the action sent by the European Commission to the European Court of Justice, all efforts are being made to prevent Portugal being convicted and required to pay fines," read a missive from the office of the Secretary of State for the Environment.
The tourism figures for this August rose 16.3% in the Algarve as a remarkable 608,000 visitors chose the region for their summer holidays.
The number of overnight stays increased by 12.1%, reaching 3 million with the all important revenue rising by 14.8% compared to last August, with over €160 million collected by the hotel sector, according to official figure just in from the National Institute of Statistics.
Three UK airports have changed ownership for £1bn, passing into Spanish and Australian hands.
Aberdeen, Glasgow and Southampton airports were sold by Heathrow Airport Holdings (HAH) to a consortium formed by two companies - Spanish firm Ferrovial and Australia-based Macquarie.
Insulting a tax official in Portugal for some may be justified, cathartic and satisfying but now is illegal and attracts a fine or a prison term of up to five years.
The 2015 State Budget comes with some interesting nuggets hidden in the small print as next year’s increasingly uncompromising plans for the collection of taxes from everything in Portugal with a pulse comes with some heavyweight powers for those who have chosen to toil in the tax department’s customer-facing offices.
The construction industry in Portugal remains deeply challenged.
Across the eurozone, there was a slight decrease in activity of -0.3% in August compared to August of last year.
Nineteen years after a botched surgical procedure a clinic successfully has had its fine reduced from €172,000 to €111,000 as the woman in question ‘was over 50 at the time and sex isn’t so important after 50.’
The patient's gynaecological problems required surgery at the Alfredo da Costa Maternity clinic in Lisbon, surgery that went dramatically wrong leaving the patient with a 73% permanent disability and irreversible injuries that prevented her ever from returning to a normal sex life.
