Via Verde Portugal reported today that its dedicated payment system already is operational at Faro airport and is charging and deducting car parking fees at the P1 departures carpark and the P2 arrivals car park.
"The electronic payments solution in car parks, available through the Via Verde system, ensures speed and convenience for the end user," said the company spokesman .
The price of perpetuating a long running accounting scam is the head of BES chief Riacardo Salgado, on a plate.
Ending close to twenty years at the bank, Ricardo Salgado already has resigned from the BES retail company but reappeared the next day at the head of the holding company, Banco Espírito Santo Investimento.
In Parliament, the Greens have recommend that Government guarantees "with meticulous rigour" that no woman, pregnant or postpartum, is dismissed for being pregnant and the Communists Party wants parental leave paid at 100% of salary for an extended period of 180 days.
All is agood cause as Portugal has ‘lost’ nearly one million children in 30 years and needs quickly to increase the birth rate but news today that Portuguese companies are insisting on a ‘no babies for five years’ policy for its female workers, apart from breaking a raft of laws, will not really help successive governments.
Portugal has the lowest rate of consumption per capita of any country in western Europe.
Figures released by Eurostat show that the highest rate of consumption in some EU countries was nearly three times that of the lowest.
Construction and civil engineering work in the EU began to show some improvement, rising by 0.8% in April compared to the month before.
But this followed a fall of -0.3% in March.
The Longitude Prize deadline for votes is looming.
Voting closes at 7.10 pm on 25 June this year.
April's tourism figures are just in and show an increase in overnights stays by residents and non-residents with the Algarve making excellent progress with help from one big conference contract from Mercedes-Benz.
The Mercedes Global Training event at Salgados, Albufeira, and the housing of maintenance workers in Sines significantly increasing the country’s overall figures.
The caravel Boa Esperança has reached the aptly named Puerto Sherry in Cádiz and now is safely moored at the Honra jetty where it will repeat the successful entertainment formula used in Seville to promote the Algarve region as a tourist, gastronomic and wine rich destination over the next seven days.
Two weeks out from Lagos the replica C16th caravel has at last been put to a useful purpose with a cargo of promotional materials and merchandise from the Algarve that will be sold off at cost price to the Spanish public and passing tourists.
