Paulo Portas passed a happy day in Dublin, leaving turmoil of domestic politics well behind him as he addressed delegates at the Web Summit and pitched the benefits of Lisbon where the event will be held next year.

The Deputy Prime Minister wants to bring the shine of the "new economy" to the Portuguese capital as he talked of young people in this sunrise industry, young people that largely are absent from his homeland as hundreds of thousands now are working happily in other European countries.

The Olhão council budget for 2016 will be spent ‘on priority areas’ as defined by the executive led by António Pina, with education, sport, youth culture and social action heading the list.

The proposed budget and key planning options for 2016 were presented by the mayor and were approved by a majority at the last council meeting held on 29 October.

The birth rate in France has overtaken that in Ireland propelling it into top position.

Figures released from Insee, the French national statistics agency, show that French women have an average of 1.99 children, just shy of the two needed to maintain population numbers.

Vila Real de Santo António council has launched a public tender for the repair and refurbishment of the iconic but crumbling, Hotel Guadiana.

The building already was classified as a municipal property of interest in 2010 and the council, having bought the property, wants it to be reopened as a hotel.

Memmingen is the latest destination in Germany for passengers travelling on Ryanair.

The airport is located about 3.8 km from the centre of Memmingen and 110 km from the centre of Munich.

It serves Memmingen and the Allgäu area and provides a low-cost alternative to Munich Airport and sometimes is referred to as 'Munich-West' - a trick that for once Ryanair is not using.

Ricardo Salgado, the former head of Banco Espírito Santo, is to have his capped pension restored to the full entitlement.

Salgado’s monthly pension from the funds of the shattered BES empire will rise from the current €29,000 a month to a more comfortable €90,000, starting next month.

There are still thousands of pending Golden Visa applications as mostly Chinese punters queue up to be granted a range of enviable benefits when they buy a property in Portugal over a prescribed value.

After several months of poor performance at the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) whose staff processes the documentation, the rise in October saw 119 requests granted, up from 37 in September.

The oft’ forgotten and little travelled EN2, stretching from Faro in the Algarve to Chaves in Tras-os-Montes in the far north of the country is to become a new tourist route, all 739 kilometres of it.

The 'National Highway 2' initiative is being led by the Santa Marta de Penaguião council in the Vila Real district, where on Saturday a protocol was signed to link together all the municipalities through which the route passes.