Environmental association ZERO has called for some urgent action by the public authorities to prevent erosion, soil degradation and water pollution in those areas damaged by recent forest fires before the arrival of the first heavy rainfall of the autumn.
The next few days will see that start of the seasonal rains across most of mainland Portugal and ZERO says the authorities need to act in concert especially in areas where water is used to feed into the public supply.
Goods and property seized by the authorities during criminal cases can be sold off by the State through the Asset Administration Bureau.
In the four years since its creation, this bureau, a division of the Asset Recovery Office of the Judicial Police, has accumulated €222 million of properties, jewelry and cars but has not sold a single item.
Maria Luís Albuquerque, the former Finance Minister under the Pedro Passos Coelho administration, has hit out at the "wrong policies" of the António Costa government, saying that an economic model based on boosting domestic demand does not work.
In an interview with Jornal de Negócios published today, Albuquerque said that if the Social Democrats (PSD) were still in charge, they would boost income more gradually and concentrate on measures to encourage investment and reform corporation tax.
Two more employees of the National Civil Protection Authority have ‘resigned’ over the Kamov helicopter fiasco that already has caused the exit of the authority's president last week.
The Inspectorate General of Internal Administration detected 99 "non-conformities" when investigating the helicopter deal and the subsequent contract with a private company to provide air support for fighting forest fires.
Britain’s former prime minister said today that he has decided to resign from being the Conservative MP for Witney.
He said he had been thinking long and hard about the matter over the summer and concluded that it would not be possible to function as a bankbench MP after having served as the head of state.
The president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, has ordered an ethics committee to look into the Barroso affair that saw the former President of the European Commission take a high-profile and lucrative position at the reviled international finance house Goldman Sachs.
José Manuel Barroso may have broken EU rules that state that commission officials must “behave with integrity and discretion” once they have retired or moved on.
Germany’s far-right newcomer party has followed a significant victory in regional elections with a marked defeat in another.
On Sunday, the Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party scored only 7.8% of the vote in the northwestern state of Lower Saxony, pushing it to fourth place in the elections that were for town and rural councils.
Rain is on its way and will hit the north and central regions on Monday with a distinct possibility that it will continue south to the Algarve, according to Portugal’s weather service.
On Monday 'oop north there will be a build-up of cloud bringing scattered showers accompanied by thunder.
