Democracy only lives if it is economically sustainable, according to Portugal's President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
The president argued that the country needs examples of wealth creation, as he spoke during a ceremony in Castelo Branco honouring Hélder Rafael, founder of the clothing company Dielmar.
Holiday rental company Airbnb has agreed to work with London and Amsterdam to enforce the cities’ regulations on lettings.
In a clear change of policy, the company said its website will police the limits each city has imposed on the number of days per year that property can be let.
Portugal’s Food Bank warehouse volunteers now are busy sorting and starting to distribute an influx of 2,129 tons of food donated by shoppers in a nationwide campaign last weekend.
The total tonnage collected from generous shoppers was an increase on the May 2016 collection of 1,921 tons and is only just behind the 2,270 collected in successful campaign last autumn.
The food will be distributed through 2,700 institutions to around 426,000 people who are known not to have enough to eat.
Coca-Cola in Portugal has been joined by Sumol + Compal in warning of significant prices increases in their soft drinks ranges due to the new ‘sugar tax.’
Parliament approved the Special Consumption Tax on November 25th for drinks with added sugar and other sweeteners as from February 2017. The tax will add between 8 cents and 16 cents per litre of sugary soft drinks.
Spain is set to increase its taxes on alcohol and tobacco as well as imposing a new tax on sugary soft drinks.
The new albeit minority government finally in power is in a race to honour its pledges to Brussels to reduce its deficit and its debt.
Cody Searle, 21, caught up with a rapist and grabbed him after a 67-year-old homeless woman had been beaten about the head and savagely attacked in Albufeira last Thursday at dawn.
"He still had his trousers open and was covered in blood," said the fearless Searle who caught up with the attacker at the bus station and managed to restrain him.
A Qatar Airways flight made an emergency landing in the Açores this morning which resulted in ten passengers being injured.
The plane landed at the Lajes airbase on Terceira Island. According to Correio da Manhã, with strong in-flight turbulence causing injuries to passengers which forced the flight to land at the nearest airport.
The Principality of Andorra, tucked away in the Pyrenees, moved to abolish its tax haven status when its unicameral parliament approved a measure to share bank account information with other countries.
The General Council agreed that the measure will come into force from January 2018 on accounts held by people from European Union countries.
