German carrier Lufthansa has had to cancel nearly half of its long-haul flights due to a continuing strike by pilots.
Strikes will take place between 02:00 GMT and 22:59 GMT on Thursday and will affect long-haul and cargo flights.
Portugal’s finance minister Maria Luís Albuquerque hit back at suggestions that the Golden Visa scheme was in any way under threat, despite Operation Labyrinth which has uncovered a web of corruption, illegal payments, misuse of positions of trust and money laundering.
Albuquerque was asked by a Latvian MEP at the European Parliament in Brussels whether perhaps this scheme should be a temporary one and end soon due to the adverse publicity generated.
Three months after the launch of the new ‘judicial map’ under the control of the Ministry for Justice there are still some problems.
Software failures in the new Citius software programme and the lack of judicial officials to run the courts system are the main gripes from the secretary-general of the Trade Union Association of Portuguese Judges, Maria José Costeira, and the president of the Judicial Officers Union, Fernando Jorge.
Nobel laureate James Watson is planning to auction his Nobel medal.
It will be the first known time a living recipient has put his medal up for auction.
The new president of the European Commission has come under renewed pressure over the tax avoidance schemes instituted in Luxembourg when he was prime minister.
Now the EU executive has said it will see that legislation is quickly put in place to better scrutinise tax avoidance deals for big corporations.
Detectives from Scotland Yard are to fly back to Faro next week to sit in on the interviews of 11 suspects in the continuing Madeleine McCann case.
The Operation Grange team has devised a reported 253 questions to put to the suspects, which may include Robert Murat, Mrs Murat’s wife aka Michaela Walczuck, her former partner Luís António and two other expat Britons.
Expats without a vote but hoping to do so in next year’s general election have been given a reason to hope they can, although pundits believe it will not come in time.
A Bill is in the works to restore voting rights to any British expats who’ve lived abroad for more than 15 years.
French telecom company Altice SA reported over the weekend that the race to control Portugal Telecom is over as PT's Brazilan owners had agreed to 'exclusive talks' over the detail of the Altice €7.4 billion offer.
This exclusivity agreement ends the race for Isabel dos Santos, businesswoman and daughter of Angola’s dictator, who has been left at the altar, as have been the private equity bidders Apax Partners and Bain Capital which had hoped to make a killing on the upside when PT is sorted out and ready for resale.
