The Left Bloc proposal to abolish tolls on the Algarve’s Via do Infante motorway was defeated in today’s vote in the Budget and finance Committee.
The Bloquistas put forward 30 amendments to the 2016 State Budget but the tolls issue was voted out by the Socialist Party and the CDS People’s Party, with the Social Democrats abstaining.
Córdoba’s renowned mosque-cathedral, subjected to a tug of war over ownership, has been deemed to be the property of “each and every citizen of the world”.
The world heritage site started out as a Visigoth Christian church in the early 9th century, was enlarged by the Moors who turned it into a mosque and then acquired in 1236 by the Catholic Church during the reign of Fernando III after Córdoba fell to Christian troops.
Assunção Cristas has take over as president of the CDS-PP People’s Party* leaving Paulo Portas wiping away tears as he heads for a change of career after 16 years.
Cristas, the former coalition Minister for Agriculture, is the first woman to run the party and is the seventh leader since the CDS - Partido Popular was founded on 19th July, 1974 in the aftermath of the Carnation Revolution.
Portugal’s former Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho advised his old finance minister to take the job at Arrow Global.
The former Minister of Finance, Maria Luís Albuquerque, asked Pedro Passos Coelho what he thought about the job of non-exec director at the UK-based debt collector compared to other offers she claims to have received after she left office.
Portugal’s hospitality sector opened 46 new hotels last year but the number is tailing off as land prices rise and there is a feeling among investors that the market already is become saturated.
For 2017 there are plans for 13 more hotels just in Lisbon and in the current year, 29 more hotels are to be launched.
Asylum seekers are being asked to help clean the streets and parks of Italy’s northern city of Turin.
The scheme was launched by the city’s waste authority and city council and will let refugees waiting for their asylum claims to be processed the chance to work a six-hour shift each Saturday to empty bins, pick up litter and sweep leaves.
The Algarve’s anti-oil organisations today held a major event in Faro which included a march through the city's streets to protest at the government’s plans to turn the Algarve's offshore and onshore land into oil and gas production zones.
ASMAA, Allgrave, Tavira Em Transição, Faro Em Transição, Movimento Algarve Livre de Petróleo and more, each with their local supporters held a protest march and attended workshops and lectures.
Three regional elections in Germany on Sunday have dented the standing of Angela Merkel.
Her Christian Democrat (CDU) party lost two of the three states in the elections, according to exit polls.
