The Minister of Agriculture said today that state support to those fishermen who decide against putting out to sea because of the sardine fishing ban are set at the maximum level allowed by EU regulations.
The sardine ban has been put in place due to dwindling stocks which need to be preserved to breed and produce more sardines for next year.
A study by TGI Marktest concluded that 50.5% of the Portuguese admitted to having been to a fast food outlet at least once in the past two months.
This equates to more than 4.3 million Portuguese resorting to a fast food restaurant, and the majority of respondents who answered ‘yes’ unsurprisingly are at the younger end of the scale.
Deco warns that buying used tyres is more expensive, certainly more dangerous and ends up costing the driver more in the long run.
The consumer protection association analysed 89 used tyres and concluded that most had serious flaws.
Internationally respected banking chief António Horta Osório was back in Portugal last night giving some advice about debt control, reviewing Portugal's reforms and looking at how to increase the population's standard of living.
The chairman of Lloyds Bank said that Portugal must continue to implement structural reforms to enable the economy to grow "over time" and emphasised that Portugal must continue to control its debt.
If the money from income tax and VAT receipts continues to grow at the rate registered to July this year, the government estimates that taxpayers can expect a decrease in 2016 of the income tax surcharge from the current 3.5% to 2.6%.
The rise in taxes received by the treasury can be viewed against a background of evasion and delayed payments with over 30% of taxed due, remaining unpaid.
British firms caught employing migrants without proper documents could be shut down for 48 hours.
The provision is to be included in a new immigration bill which will accompany a change in the law to make it easier to prosecute companies which knowingly hire unauthorised workers.
A man in Spain tried to fake his own kidnapping for the purpose of extorting ransom money from his parents.
The unnamed man from Cartagena, in the south-east, was arrested after the police became suspicious.
Spain recorded its hottest ever temperatures during the first half of this year.
The average temperature measured 15.5C, while July had the hottest monthly temperature on record of 26.5C on average. The previous July high of 26.2ºC was in 2003.
