One of the Algarve’s best loved family beaches has been cut off to drivers wishing to use the car park down by the beach restaurant.
In a report in Sul Informaçao today, the chaos caused by the landowner is somewhat mitigated by his involvement in a 20 year court case with the council - a case that was set to carry on for decades unless action was taken to highlight the situation and get some action.
The German state now estimates it will take in 800,000 refugees this year, a whopping increase from its original January forecast of 300,000.
If that many people are accepted, it will be four times the number which was given protection last year in Germany.
Portugal is among the top countries of the world that best prevent money laundering and terrorism financing.
In a study from the Basle Institute, Portugal lies 12th on the list, ahead of both the UK and Germany.
The suspension of Golden Visa applications for two weeks in July meant only ten were issued, all of them to Chinese citizens.
This meant a 70% drop compared to last July following the suspension caused by legal difficulties in the wording of Portugal's 'Residence Permits for Investment' laws.
The donation of blood by homosexuals will be allowed after all with certain sensible conditions. The decision is based on recommendations a working group at the Portuguese Blood Institute which have been accepted by the Ministry of Health.
The working group unanimously disapproved with the head of the blood service’s earlier calls for using homosexual behaviour per se as a basis for refusing blood donations and, with conditions, represents the end of a ban that had perturbed campaigners.
A German man has been charged with treason for giving secrets to both the CIA and to Russia’s intelligence service.
Markus R, 32, was employed by Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the BND where, prosecutors said, he had access to sensitive documents.
José Sócrates has convinced himself that his is innocent of any wrongdoings he may be charged with and blames his continued incarceration on a move by the current government to prevent a Socialist Party victory in the general election on October 4th this year.
The former PM could have spend the weeks since June in the comfort of his own home but a condition of his release was for him to sport an electronic ankle bracelet which he was not prepared to do.
A judge in Spain is pushing for economic and environmental crimes to receive the same legal treatment as those committed against humanity.
Baltasar Garzón is known as a campaigning judge whose efforts in the past have resulted in new legal scope for pursuing human rights offenders across national borders – in 1998, for example, he ordered the arrest of former Chilean dictator Pinochet who was in London at the time.
