A new parliamentary committee for health has agreed to pay an urgent visit to the Algarve due to the poor situation of the region’s medical services.

"Hospital services in the Algarve are dire. Obviously we need to look as a top priority at the Hospitals of the Algarve where, despite the service delivery and professional pride of doctors and nurses, various services and specialties in Faro, Portimão and Lagos simply are not functioning," said MP Luís Graça, speaking for the Socialist MPs representing the Algarve region; António Eusébio, Fernando Anastácio and Ana Passos.

Citizens of Finland may soon be receiving €800 tax-free every month from the government.

This national basic income would replace all other benefits and would be paid to adults whether or not they have any other income.

A farmer has been found with his head smashed in on the flat land between Lagoa and Sesmarias in the Algarve.

The police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the violent death on common grazing land at Canadá, 2 kilometres south of Lagoa, and the immediate area has been sealed off all day while a forsenic team logged the site and looked for clues.

The influential Financial Times newspaper has listed its journalists' best and worst travel destinations for 2015.

Vila do Bispo’s Castelejo is "the perfect beach" for the Pink Un’s cadre of travel journalists.

Greece has managed to agree a budget for 2016 by a margin of 8 votes.

With no end to austerity, the budget includes large spending cuts, pension and tax reforms and the perennial category, tax increases.

Portugal’s union of journalists has lodged a complaint at the Regulatory Authority for the Media about the closure and resurrection of newspapers Sol and i, which lost €4.4 million and €3.8 million last year, respectively.

Around 100 jobs are to go at the two titles, controlled by Angolan businessman and former BES Angola chief Dr Álvaro Sobrinho, who aims to close the businesses and re-employ selected staff to run two new publications called, coincidentally, Sol and i.

Although the economy of Spain has sprouted some green shoots recently, more citizens than ever are vacating the country in favour of trying their luck abroad.

Official data shows that no fewer than 50,844 Spaniards left in the first six months of 2015.

Portugal’s armed forces are available to lend a hand to France in the fight against the Islamic State, but there is one problem, there is not enough money to fund any such help.

Countries pay their own costs when participating in military operations and Portugal does not have enough money allocated to its military to support European and NATO missions, according to military sources.