Portugal’s taxpayers are working hard to pay off the debts incurred by a series of fiscally incompetent and profligate governments.
Tax revenue last year beat all records at €38.984 billion, €1.9 billion more than 2014’s take, up a selfless 5%.
Government is looking at the functioning of the Algarve Central Hospital management area and will report its findings at the end of the first quarter.
Recommendations will be provided in a report that aims to find out what went wrong and what needs to be done to fix the damage.
A fresh corruption scandal is swirling around Spain’s Popular Party as it fights to form a coalition government to maintain its hold on power.
Some 10 people, allegedly including the former PP president of the region, have been arrested in the eastern region of Valencia, according to a Guardia Civil source who declined to be named.
Évora Court today confirmed the archiving of the case of the drowning of six university students at Meco beach on December 15th, 2013.
"We will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights," said António Soares, the father of Ana Catarina Soares who was part of the group of young people who were ‘swept into the sea by a wave,’ according to the only survivor, João Gouveia.
Three nuns who alleged they were being held in their convent against their will have been freed by Spain’s National Police.
The three, originally from India, have been living in a cloistered convent in the pilgrimage cite of Santiago de Compostela since the 1990s.
The European Commission was not prepared for the request for financial assistance from Portugal and other countries during the 2008 financial crisis because warning signs had passed unnoticed, according to a new report from the European Court of Auditors.
The auditors found that the Commission did succeed in managing assistance programmes which brought about reform, despite its lack of experience, and they point to a number of positive outcomes, but they also identify several areas of concern relating to the Commission’s “generally weak” handling of the crisis: countries treated differently, limited quality control, weak monitoring of implementation and shortcomings in documentation.
British buyers remain the largest group of foreigners who buy property in France, but overall figures show that sales to all foreigners have plummeted over the course of the last decade.
Of all properties sold last year, non-resident foreigners bought just one per cent.
Portugal's Justice Directorate has released figures that show the number of court cases for debt collection have declined since a 2013 scheme came into force that allowed many cases to be archived by the State if the accused has no registered assets.
Debt collection cases have declined since 2013 to a current total of 963,439 proceedings as at June 30, 2015, although how this is good news remains unclear.
