Twelve Portuguese are reported to have died on impact as the Mercedes Sprinter van in which they were travelling through France hit an oncoming lorry head-on.
The location of the crash is Moulins, Allier in central France and the bodies have been taken to Montbeugny in the Auvergne as families are contacted in Portugal.
German auto manufacturer VW said it is to recall some 800,000 vehicles worldwide due to a potential foot pedal problem.
More than half of the vehicles are the Porsche Cayenne built from 2011 to 2016 and the remainder are the Toureg model.
Portugal’s airport workers union (SITAVA) agreed in Faro today the new groundhandling deal with Ryanair is "illegal and fraudulent."
"We are here today to denounce illegality and fraud," said Mário Reis, the union delegate from SITAVA representing baggage handlers from Portway, many of whom face the sack.
Members of the Committee of Inquiry that has been set up to look into the collapse and rushed sale of the Portuguese bank Banif are to insist that the documents they have requested are delivered before the committee meets on Monday.
Weak excuses for non-delivery of the requested information have been sent in by the Bank of Portugal, auditor Ernst & Young, and Finpro, a company owned by Caixa Geral, Banif and Américo Amorim.
Algarvians, as the rest of Portugal today are baking folar in their brick and stone ovens as part of their traditional Easter meal.
Folar is a dome-shaped sweet bread baked with whole eggs immersed into the dough. As is traditional, the family would have spent the previous day kneading the dough between consuming copious amounts of wine. Yes, they make it an occasion for the family entertainment and another excuse for coming together, again.
Expats exiting
Boatloads of British immigrants are expected to head from Portugal and Spain to the South Atlantic if Britain decides to leave the European Union. They fear that Brexit will make them no longer welcome in the EU. For many expats the Falkland Islands seem a good option. For others, Patagonia would do. Anything but having to return to live in that confused homeland misnamed the United Kingdom.
Stock da Cunha and Sérgio Monteiro will be in New York next week to start the Novo Banco sale roadshow.
BES collapsed 18 months ago and the sale of Novo Banco, stripped of much of its inconvenient debt, will kick off on March 31st.
The bill for airline security at aerodromes on the Bragança-Portimão air service is still up in the air as all parties say it’s not down to them to pay up.
Three months after the start of the AeroVip airlink, there still is no agreement between the councils and the GNR on who pays for the GNR’s time and expertise in overseeing passengers.
