Portugal may be on the way to a new bailout, says the Wall Street Journal in an opinion article by the markets editor.
Pressure from the high cost of debt financing, rising interest rates, the continuing 2016 State Budget negotiations and Fitch's decision to cut Portugal’s rating, all are putting Portugal in the centre of widespread concerns over the eurozone.
The Rodrigo Lapa murder inquiry - the 15-year-old who was strangled and dumped on land near his Portimão home - has one key suspect.
Rodrigo’s stepfather is wanted for questioning but he fled to Brazil at the time of Rodrigo’s disappearance leaving the teenager's mother to face police questioning and media scrutiny.
Faro council has approved a motion to restore the six parishes in the municipal area that were closed by Passos Coelho's reorganisation of local government.
Juntas de Freguesia in Faro Sé, São Pedro, Montenegro, Conceição, Estoi e Santa Bárbara de Nexe now may all be reopened after the municipal assembly approved the motion with 28 votes in favor (PCP, PS, PSD, CFC and CDS) and three abstentions (BE and CDS).
As Portugal's government goes all out for oil and gas exploration in a world that is moving away from fossil fuels and into renewable sources of energy, the Biomass Algarve exhibition is launched on Firday in Loulé.
Expo Biomass Algarve is aimed at professionals involved in the heating of buildings and swimming pools and is hosted by NERA in the Industrial Zone of Loulé on Friday (14:30 to 18:30) and on Saturday (10:00 to 17h00).
Two of Germany’s intelligence agencies have warned that Moscow is trying deliberately to create unrest in Germany, according to the German tabloid Bild.
Both the country’s internal security agency and its foreign intelligence said that there was a particular danger that the Russian community in the country could be mobilised to speak or act against Germany.
Pierre Moscovici’s period of reflection may now be complete as today he chummed up to Portugal’s Finance Minister, Mario Centeno, to atone for his ‘Plan B’ remarks earlier in the week.
As if there had been no row at all over Moscovici’s statement that Portugal will have to impose additional financial controls to keep the country on track, the so called raft of ‘Plan B’ tax rises and spending cuts in addition to those in the 2016 State Budget, he was pictured today in Lisbon, all smiles and congratulations.
The Minister of Health is coming to Faro on Friday to celebrate today's appointment of a new board for the Algarve region’s public hospital service and to discuss with mayors how it all went so wrong.
Adalberto Campos Fernandes also will meet the Algarve University’s Chancellor to discuss a proposed new training programme which aims to supply the region with key medical staff.
French authorities have been told that they must do more to prevent “modern day slavery” in their country.
The country has been criticised for not devoting sufficient resources to flight against slavery by the CNCDH, the National Commission for Human Rights, which issued a report on Thursday.
