Energy bills in the UK have rocketed by 55% in the last decade.

Despite the use of energy dropping by 17%, prices have gone from an average of £69 per month in 2002 to £106 a month by 2012.

The Spanish government was trying to convince the world that it is beginning to recover, but the IMF was not buying it.

IMF head Christine Lagarde angered the authorities there when she instead insisted that the austerity drive must continue.

Three Algarve development associations have launched the 'Pure Algarve’ initiative to attract nature tourism to the region.

The new brand will have one multimedia website available from March 30th 2014 in Portuguese, English, French, German and Spanish.

The parliamentary group of the Left Bloc returned to question the government on the situation surrounding the MRI scanner service at Faro Hospital which they say is ‘at risk.’

The government has been asked this question before but as it declined to provide an answer within the stipulated 30 day period the Left Bloc again has asked when posing questions about the serious management failures at the Algarve Hospitals Group.

Finanças is launching a handy new card to hand to retailers when customers want a receipt with their tax identification number (NIF) registered.

An email is being sent to taxpayers to let them know how this card can will make this process simpler and negates the need to call out their details when in a queue.

Greece has suffered the second largest property crash in the EU since the financial crisis.

According to Eurostat, the largest property slump was in Croatia, the EU’s newest member.

Germany plans to hold only muted commemorations for the 100th anniversary of the first world war in which 37 million people were killed or wounded.

Some €4 million has been allocated to events, but this pales compared to the budgets being applied by other key nations involved.

The home of tiramisu is to shut its doors forever at the end of March.

Le Beccherie restaurant in Treviso, northern Italy, is credited with inventing the lush dessert in the 1970s. The accolade is given to the mother of the current owner, Carlo Campeol.