The derelict Guarda Fiscal building in Cabanas now is the centre for protest and activity as locals are fed up with hosting an abandoned state owned building in their midst.

The Tavira Left Bloc wants to turn the old Guarda Fiscal post, in Beco Vasco da Gama, into a community centre, an exhibition centre, a tourist information centre, in fact anything other than leaving the building to deteriorate further.

Venice is hoping to restore parts of its historic Ghetto to coincide with the 500th anniversary of its establishment.

The non-profit organisation Venetian Heritage Council, headed by fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, is asking fashion and show business celebrities to donate millions to the work.

Holidaymakers using Faro island soon will have new parking provided near the south west perimeter of the airport.

In work agreed between Polis Litoral Ria Formosa and contractors, cars can be parked and those wanting to cross the bridge onto the island can do so by foot or bicycle along a new kilometre-long path at the side of the existing road, which also will be resurfaced.

French fishermen from Brittany are on trial charged with smuggling people into the UK.

The 13 Breton men are among 18 who are accused of using private boats and pleasure yachts for ferrying 200 illegal migrants onto beaches in Britain.

Crowdfunding investors in Portugal will be banned from shelling out more than €3,000 per offer, according to restrictive proposals from the stock market regulator CMVM.

The new rules are up for public consultation until January 21, 2016 but if they go ahead, the market that encourages new companies to get going, without recourse to applying to banks for money, will artificially be constricted.

People in Germany have been given a slap on their wrists by the country’s Federal Environmental Agency for becoming a “burden” on the environment.

Its report discloses that daily habits in Germany are demanding too much.

Portugal’s Court of Auditors has headed off the risky purchase of the Estoril race track by Cascais council to save ratepayers from unquantifiable financial liabilities best suited to a commercial venture.

The Court of Auditors formally has objected to the agreement signed between Cascais council and state holding company Parpública to purchase the Estoril race track for €4.9 million.

Had this EC amendment been adopted just a few months ago, the whole fuss over Neeleman and Pedroso’s takeover of TAP would have been avoided.

Brussels now wants to allow non-European investors to be able own more than 49% of any European airline and in return European governments must tighten up rules about state subsidies to the airline sector.