Although the economy of Spain has sprouted some green shoots recently, more citizens than ever are vacating the country in favour of trying their luck abroad.
Official data shows that no fewer than 50,844 Spaniards left in the first six months of 2015.
Portugal’s armed forces are available to lend a hand to France in the fight against the Islamic State, but there is one problem, there is not enough money to fund any such help.
Countries pay their own costs when participating in military operations and Portugal does not have enough money allocated to its military to support European and NATO missions, according to military sources.
The search for a missing man, who leapt into the Arade river after the car in which he was travelling burst into flames, will resume at dawn on Sunday.
The blaze started at a road accident early on Saturday morning on the EN125 half way across the Ponte Nova do Arade, Portimão. An HGV and a car were in collision.
The Socialist Government says that the outgoing administration did not pass it the file, the one about the public having to pay for more tolls.
A new concession contract with Infrastructure Portugal, which the previous government knew all about but kept hidden, includes the June 2016 introduction of tolls on roads ‘that look like motorways,’ notably sections of the A3 and A4 in Oporto area with an income of €15 million a year, and many others.
João Vasconcelos, (pictured) the Portimão councillor, newly elected to parliament as a Left Bloc MP, has been instrumental in the party proposal to ban tolls on the Algarve’s Via do Infante.
The 8th of December is the 4th anniversary of the tolling of the Algarve’s arterial route across the region and also the date that the Left Bloc again is proposing to parliament the abolition of tolls.
The UK continues to welcome the steady flow of Portuguese immigrants seeking work and a better standard of living than they feel is available in their homeland.
The numbers were up 22% between in the year to September 2015 according to the Department of Work and Pensions in the UK which is responsible for handing out National Insurance numbers to incoming workers.
The majority of Danes who went to the polls this Thursday rejected the idea of deepening their participation in the EU.
The referendum proposed opting in to the EU’s justice and home affairs legislation, while allowing Denmark to select which regulations it would adopt.
EU regulators are to investigate tax deals between McDonald's and Luxembourg which enabled the U.S. chain to escape paying taxes on European franchise royalties from 2009, a move which could lead to hefty back taxes for the company.
The EC’s antitrust regulators said that they would launch the probe into arrangements which could be defined as ‘illegal state aid.’
