Pires de Lima, the former Minister of the Economy, said the new government’s bold tax cuts will make Portugal "unsustainable" and that the priorities of the new government puts Portugal at risk of generating external deficits.

The former minister is concerned about the priority to be given to private consumption, citing the Socialist Plan to re-inflate the domestic economy by leaving households with more of what they earn in disposable income.

A number of super rich entrepreneurs are setting up an investment fund with the aim of searching for clean, renewable energy.

Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and some 25 other high-profile individuals from more than 10 countries launched their Breakthrough Energy Coalition.

The Government has decided to give landlords until the end of this year to issue electronic receipts to tenants and to register their lease agreements online. This mainly is due to a distinct lack of effort by landlords despite the new system being law.

This decision taken by the new socialist government and was issued by the new Secretary of State for Fiscal Affairs, Fernando Rocha Andrade.

After forty years of absence, the lynx has returned to Madrid.

Scientists have confirmed through DNA that the endangered Iberian lynx have returned to the Sierra de Guadarrama valley near the Spanish capital.

Nigel Jackson was in court on Monday accused of bludgeoning his wife to death and burying her under a patio in their garden so he could set up home with his girlfriend.

Former taxi driver Nigel Jackson, 60, is accused of murdered his wife Brenda Davidson, 72, in a plot to move his Portuguese girlfriend, Vanessa Milheiro, into the family home.

The recent media coverage of the planned red fruit farm near Luz da Tavira once again has highlighted the Roman city of Balsa, the remains of which are lying beneath 47 hectares of Algarvian soil.

Surexport, a company from Huelva in Spain, received the go-ahead from the Institute for Nature and Forestry Conservation (ICNF) to start erecting greenhouses on 14.8 hectares of farmland, some of which is in the ecological reserve. This permission needs further investigation to discover the extenuating circumstances.

In mid-November Angola celebrated its 40th anniversary of independence from its former colonial master.

Portugal's then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rui Machete, commented at the time from the safety of Malta that Angola and Portugal enjoy a good relationship and applauded the "extremely positive statements with regard to Portugal being a very close partner and that Angola has excellent relations with Portugal."

Bureaucratic insistence by the French has ensured that Portugal’s new Prime Minister has been prevented from addressing the Climate Change conference, COP21, that started in Paris today.

Unable to accept that politics happens and that prime ministers change, the French organisers have insisted that as António Costa was not named on the speakers’ list, he can not speak at the crucial event.