The European Commission has proposed that EU countries accept 40,000 refugees – Portugal’s share is 1,701 from Syria and Eritrea which need to be settled over the next two years.
The detail of the ‘Agenda for Migration’ has been released by the European Commission while many European leaders face accusations of passivity and indifference to the shipwrecks of boats carrying desperate migrants across the Mediterranean.
Efrómovich and Neeleman, the two heavyweight contenders for control of state airline TAP, have until June 5 to submit improved offers for the airline, should they wish to.
Germán Efromovich and David Neeleman (pictured) have passed the first big hurdle and have had their opening bids accepted by the government but, as the treasury clearly senses that it has the upper hand, the bidders have been asked to go away and have a think about raising their respective offers for buying the 61% stake up for grabs.
French companies are appealing to some of the country’s expats to return home.
The keenest firms are start-up ones needing talented staff with international experience.
Britons are to be asked if they wish to “remain a member of the European Union” in the well-publicised in-out referendum.
The full question in the referendum bill is: “Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?”
People from the Basque region can feel reassured now because they can once more enter Iceland without fear of being killed on sight.
A law dating back 400 years permitted, indeed encouraged, the murder of anyone from the Basque part of Spain who dared step foot in Iceland’s Westfjords area.
While Portugal’s hard-pressed households try and make sense of their shrinking monthly budgets, the price of gas and electricity steadily has been rising to make it one of the most expensive in Europe.
Portugal registered the highest increase in gas prices for households within the European Union last year, according to the latest data published by Eurostat.
José Sócrates is free, but just for the afternoon as he was taken to Lisbon from his cell in Évora prison to be questioned by prosecutor Rosário Teixeira for the second time since his arrest last November.
It’s lonely in prison for the former socialist prime minster as his friend, the co-accused Carlos Santos Silva was allowed home last week and is under video surveillance to make sure he doesn’t try anything sneaky.
Identity theft crime has soared again in Britain, this time by 27% in the first three months of 2015.
The UK’s fraud prevention service, Cifas, has warned that credit cards, bank accounts and other financial services are at risk if thieves steal someone’s name.
