UK better placed to make deals with EU

europeanparliamentAfter his re-election, PM David Cameron is in a stronger position to negotiate the UK’s ties with the EU.

The opinion expressed was that of Portugal’s Jose Manuel Barroso, formerly the president of the European Commission for ten years preceeding the appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker.

Advertisers pay billions to Google

googleGoogle has been gobbling up the most significant share of advertising spending in the world.

Its income from media spending is more than twice its closest rival.

Prime Minister's upbeat Algarve speech - 'investment and clear horizons'

passoscoelhoThe President of the PSD, Prime Minster Pedro Passos Coelho, was in Faro this weekend and stated that his government did not fail the country in the field of social care and even in times of great difficulty it managed to provide support to the poorest sectors of the population.

Speaking at the Municipal Theatre in Faro, the prime minister said that he is looking to the future with conviction and confidence and that the Government will deliver by the end of his term, a country "with the horizon of the future" and can look with pride at the work achieved.

Crimes increase on Facebook and Twitter

twitterThe ugly face of social media is becoming increasingly apparent with police struggling to deal with reports of harassment and sexual grooming.

Britain’s largest police force recorded 1,207 crimes reported to them which involved Facebook in the crime report. This was a rapid increase of 21% in only two years.

Cruise tourism - Lisbon grows fat as Portimão withers

cruiseship2Lisbon, with its deep water moorings and coherent cruise tourism offer, welcomed 500,872 passengers in 2014 who between them spent an estimated €92 million in the city.

Portimão received 20,000 passengers in 2013 and sees the possibility of 250,000 a year if ever the port is modernised so the city can accept larger ships.

Fabled lighthouse reconstruction planned

lighthousealexandriaFor hundreds of years, the Lighthouse of Alexandria was once among the world’s tallest buildings as well as one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

Egyptian officials have said that plans are underway to rebuild the ruined lighthouse.

Cycling capital of the world

bicycleamsterdamIt took the deaths of 400 children to make the people of the Netherlands to realise that their love affair with the car had to end.

Automobiles were seen as the transport of the future in the 1960s, the boom time which followed the war. Entire districts were torn down in order to create space for vehicle travel.

Uber ignores Lisbon ban

taxilisbonThe Uber/Lisbon website, which arranges private cabs for happy customers, is still live with passengers able to access the service despite an injunction banning the website from operating.

New customers may register and existing customers use the Uber cab services despite the Central Court of Lisbon granting a banning odder to Antral, the deeply worried National Association of Road Transporters in Passenger Cars.