Intrepid outdoor types wishing to walk the Via Algarviana now can find a passport in any of the region’s Tourist Information offices. This can be stamped as proof of completing the various sections.
The passport scheme aims to highlight and publicise the route as well as to provide a mental incentive to keep going along the 300 kilometre path spanning the Algarve.
The draft of a new law to bail out insolvent, no-hope councils using the Municipal Support Fund (FAM) has been approved by the Council of Ministers and now will be forwarded to the National Assembly for a vote on June 18th.
The fund may win MPs' support but it lacks the support of the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities (ANMP) with which the Government is 'still in negotiation.'
Portugal’s President today expressed confidence that the tension between the Government and the Constitutional Court will be overcome, adding that the Executive depends on the political confidence of Parliament.
"I think the problems will be overcome Portugal. I hope it does not have a political crisis, it would have a very, very high cost for Portuguese," said Cavaco Silva at a meeting at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.
Spain’s government has approved a draft law which will grant nationality to the descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from the country.
The country’s Jews began leaving the county in significant numbers following the imposition of the 1492 Inquisition. They continued to leave over the course of at least the next three centuries.
A three month expedition in the replica of a C16th vessel will take in four ports in a journey of an estimated 170 nautical miles.
The caravel set sail yesterday from Lagos heading to Seville to promote the Algarve to the Spanish in a three month maritime expedition.
The volume of retail trade in the eurozone rose slightly in the eurozone during April of this year.
A rise of 0.4% was recorded.
The Pope has sacked all five of his financial watchdog board, the Financial Information Authority (AIF). They had not been due to end their terms of office until 2016.
In their places, he has appointed four experts from Switzerland, Singapore, Italy and the US.
Discount food retailer Lidl plans further major investoments in Portugal this year, having invested €45 million last year, according to the Marin Dokozic, CEO of the Portuguese subsidiary.
"This year we plan to invest more, maintaining the growth trend, with the aim for around €60 million," said Dokozic whose employee has spend €1 billion in Portugal since it opened its first shop in 1995.
