The taxman’s favourite method of collecting overdue sums, the so called ‘coercive collection’ system, has risen 25% in a year.
The treasury has raked in €430 million in the first half of this year by seizing assets including vehicles, thus rendering many families and workers immobile.
Barcelona has pushed so rapidly to become the poker capital of Europe, it has become second only in popularity to Las Vegas among the world’s top players.
The remarkable achievement comes only twelve years after the game was legalised in Catalonia.
Eleven people now have been confirmed dead after a 1950s Hawker Hunter jet hit cars as it crashed onto the A27 at Shoreham in West Sussex, wiping out drivers, two cyclists and a motorcycle rider.
The pilot survived and was flown to the Royal Sussex Hospital where he is in a critical condition.
French police are still investigating yesterday's terrorist incident on a moving TGV near Arras in France as a gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon.
The shooting happened just before 6pm yesterday evening on a train carrying over 500 passengers but two American servicemen and one British civilian manage to deal with the attack.
Praise was heaped on the trio by French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
Carlos Santos Silva is staying under house arrest, according to today’s decision from the Central Court of Criminal Investigation.
Silva is the childhood friend of José Sócrates and both are held as part of ‘Operation Marquês’ which is investigating them and others for qualified tax fraud, money laundering and accepting bribes.
The notification today of that the latest Groundforce workers strike is scheduled for the last weekend in August has put airports operator ANA under pressure.
Groundforce provides handling services at Portugal’s airports and its workers’ 29th and 30th August strike, even when adhering to the basic minimum staffing levels set by law, will causes delayed flights and will inconvenience many travellers returning home after a holiday break in Portugal.
Twenty MEPs from various countries and political persuasions have written to the European Union’s head of diplomacy demanding that recent events in Angola publically should be condemned.
The detention without charge of a group of activists, alleged to have been plotting a coup, led to a march by family members.
The GNR today announced the arrest of a German couple in São Bartolomeu de Messines, Silves after a raid which seized a cache of military grade illegal weapons, combat knives, cannabis and a home distillery.
In addition to 16 knives there was a semi-automatic Heckler and Koch used only by various armies, and a high-caliber rifle with telescopic sights.
