In 2015, GNR road patrols caught nearly 29,000 people who were driving along, chatting away on their mobile phones.
This was an increase of almost 30% compared to the previous year and represents a mass rejection of a driving law designed to prevent accidents.
French president Francois Hollande (pictured) has promised to “redefine” the country’s economic model in an effort to conquer the unemployment crisis.
He admitted that France is in “a state of economic and social emergency” as the country has seen its 10.6% rate reach an 18-year high.
A British MP has criticised Portuguese legislation that has allowed thousands of Indians to settle in the UK.
Portuguese laws allow anyone born in Goa, Daman and Diu in India before 1961, as well as their children and grandchildren, full rights to Portuguese nationality and thus a ticket north to settle anywhere in the European Union.
Paulo Portas has risen from recent media obscurity to warn of the current trend set by the Socialist government of undoing everything that the coalition government managed to achieve when it was in power.
The former deputy prime minister says that we must continue to ensure that Portugal is an attractive country "for Portuguese and foreign investment."
The majority of voters in Spain are against having another election to end the existing political stalemate, wanting instead that parties agree on a coalition government.
The December election gave the ruling centre-right People's Party (PP) the most seats but well short of a parliamentary majority.
A volunteer, rendered brain-dead when a clinical trial went disastrously wrong in France, has died in a Rennes hospital.
The trials of a new drug developed by Portuguese company Bial also triggered the hospitalisation of a further five patients who now have undergone tests and are said to be stable.
Germany is being hampered in its efforts to repatriate migrants from north Africa.
It has called on officials from Algeria and Morocco to expedite the acceptance of those of their nationals who have no residence permits for Germany so that it can better concentrate on dealing with asylum seekers seeking to dodge violence and war.
Former Secretary of State for Tourism, Adolfo Mesquita Nunes, was chosen as ‘best public manager of the year’ in the third annual Amadeus Brighter Awards ceremony.
The former Secretary of State for Tourism was given the awarded for his innovation in the tourism sector, primarily for his work on digital marketing and developing new ways of promoting Portugal as a top tourism destination – it was not for his launch and the subsequent failure of the Alojamanto Local legislation.
