A baby has been born 15 weeks after his mother has been declared brain dead death. The successful birth is a record for Portugal representing the longest-ever survival of a foetus to a brain-dead mother.
The Lisbon hospital announced that a baby boy, weighing 2.35kg (5lb 3oz), was born after a 32 week pregnancy without complications and by caesarean section.”
Portugal's banking sector suffered another humiliating blow today as Moody’s cut its rating for Montepio (Caixa Económica Montepio Geral) by two levels, from B1 to B3.
This means the bank now is categorised as a ‘speculative investment,’ or ‘junk’ and is just one level above being considered a 'substantial debt risk.’
The high street lender is deemed unable to take any shocks to its system, despite a recent capital increase of €270 million.
Portugal has not implemented, or has only implemented in part, measures recommended by the European Commission to combat racism and intolerance against Roma communities and continues to ignore the need to collect data.
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) has presented its findings on the adoption of recommendations by Portugal since they were introduced in 2013.
The minister of all things to do with the sea today decided to authorise the Sines and Algarve Ports Authority to organise dredging in the river Arade in Portimão.
This is not, as many had hoped, to enable large cruise ships to dock in Portimão and kick-start the economic resurgence of the city, but to remove an inconvenient sand bar that has been annoying skippers and which is a danger to the Formula 1 Powerboat World Championship which returns to Portimao on 29 and 31 July.
The Algarve’s EN125 ‘road of death’ is to have three active speed cameras “by the end of the first quarter of 2017.”
This is but one of the measures to reduce the accident rate on the country’s most dangerous road, according to the Secretary of State for Internal Affairs, Jorge Gomes.
The eurozone is likely to manage a growth spurt of 1.7%, according to fresh data from Eurostat which showed that annual GDP growth was higher than anticipated.
The statistics estimate annual GDP growth of 1.7% when compared to the first quarter of 2015.
Just itching to get its hand on Gibraltar, Spain’s foreign minister has revived a plan to share sovereignty over the territory if voters decide to leave the EU.
Such an arrangement would give Gibraltar continued access to the EU should the UK pull out.
Italy has demurred from submitting any candidates this year for Unesco World Heritage consideration.
It believes it is time for other countries to catch up.
