The proud city of Florence has passed new regulations to force shops in the historic city centre to sell at least 70% of local, traditional produce.
The move is an effort to reduce the number of fast-food outlets cropping up which detract from the city’s traditional fare, such as kebab shops and mini-markets selling low quality foreign products in an effort to catch the tourist euro.
The economists who participated in Bugdet Watch 2016 consider that the State Budget for this year is the best since 2010, the year in which the annual study started.
The study is a cooperation between the Institute of Public Policy, the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão and Deloitte.
Portugal’s national tourism authority today suffered the indignity and media scrutiny of a raid by the national anti-corruption unit acting under orders from Department of Investigation and Penal Action in Lisbon.
Inspectors collected documents relating to contracts and tenders for the promotion of Portuguese tourism abroad, particularly in Brazil.
Those charged with coming up with a solution for those BES customers who were tricked out of their savings in the ‘commercial paper’ rip-off, want to reach a final agreement by April.
Banco Espírito Santo may be asked to chip in with compensation for their customers, even though the 'bad bank' is in administration, having gone bust in August 2014.
In 2015 around 600,000 refugees are reported to have stayed in Germany, according to new official figures.
While a parliamentary answer to Die Linke (the Left Party) showed that at the end of 2015, there were 1.25 million refugees in Germany, the number includes 627,000 who were registered at the end of 2014.
One in every 14 Portuguese families is unable to buy enough food as they do not have the money, according to the Directorate General of Health.
The coordinator of the National Programme for the Promotion of Healthy Eating, Pedro Graça, said the findings are worrying but this statistic may not give a true picture across the country as the data was collected only from those using the National Health Service.
The old bridge in Silves, known by many as the Roman bridge, is being classified as a monument of public interest and to this end, a notification was published in the Official Gazette on February 18th.
The 76 metre bridge is built from local stone and has five perfectly formed arches spanning the river Arade.
A former German intelligence employee has said he started spying for the US and Russia because he felt under-appreciated and not sufficiently challenged in his job.
Markus Reichel, 32, was sentenced by a Munich court to eight years in jail for spying for both the CIA and the Russian secret service.
