Gibraltar’s extensive tunnel system is likely to be converted into a mega storage facility for investment-quality wine from around the world.
Work is set to start to create a state-of-the-art wine cellar which would be capable of holding more than 850,000 cases.
Portugal’s French owned airports operator ANA has stated that it will not pay out again to stop Lisbon council charging a per night tourist tax.
This year ANA will end up paying around €4 million to the capital’s council to avoid it imposing the tax which ANA sees as damaging to the tourist trade.
Prosecutors who have unravelled a widespread scam that involved handing out driving licences for cash payments claim that GNR officers were involved.
The focus of the investigation is the test centre in Vila Verde, Braga where students with enough cash could by their full driving licence.
Positive wine production in Italy this year has catapulted the country into the world’s largest producer, according to data provided to the EU.
Italy’s projected wine production is up 13% greater than in 2014 for an output of 48.8 million hectolitres. This means that Italy will be responsible for producing 28% of all wines in Europe.
‘Ship with us and get your business moving,’ according to the UPS corporate blurb but the shipping company was not counting on the wide reaching scope of Portugal’s already bulging treasury.
The Tax Authority yesterday pounced and seized a Boeing 707 flying the flag for Demark’s Star Air which is under contract to UPS, the international parcels delivery service.
Portugal’s outgoing Minister for the Economy, Pires de Lima, said that the government has no reason to doubt or to be anxious about the investment by Volkswagen in Portugal’s Autoeuropa plant.
"We have no reason to be anxious about this investment as it has always been considered by Volkswagen as essential to the development of its business," said Pires de Lima when asked by journalists about possible impact of the VW scandal on the Portuguese plant.
The body of an Irish golfer on holiday has been found at Vilamoura Marina but the police do not suspect foul play.
The 40-year-old was part of a group of golfers staying at the Dom Pedro Marina Hotel.
Former minister Armando Vara has been released from the indignity of house arrest as his conditions have been relaxed by the court.
Vara is implicated in the swirl of corruption and high-level bribery allegations covered by Operation Marquês, the same operation that involves former PM, José Sócrates.
