A Spanish city near Bilbao is picking up the trend to avoid wasting food by setting up a pioneering project.
In Galdakao, home to 29,000 residents, there is now a large refrigerator, Spain’s first “solidarity fridge” where residents and restaurants can place leftover or unused food which might otherwise been discarded.
The governor of the Bank of Portugal considers it appropriate that the full internal audit report into the collapse of Banco Espírito Santo should not be published and that it will not be made available to parliamentfor discussion.
Secrecy laws are being used by the regulator of Portugal’s financial sector to prevent the disclosure of what it calls ‘confidential documents’ contaned in the evaluation drawn up by the Bank of Portugal into its own actions surrounding the BES collapse.
It probably the first case of its kind, the GNR is to prosecute a woman who was so enraged at police behaviour that she posted a complaint on Facebook.
Having been given a ticket for parking illegally, the driver Susana Botequila Soares returned to the spot minutes later to see that the GNR vehicle had been parked in the same place and left unattended as the two GNR agents had pottered off and were enjoying coffee and cake at a nearby cafe.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has removed the Iberian lynx from its 'red list' of species in critical danger of extinction in an announcement described by the organisation as "fantastic news."
The animal has been reclassified by the IUCN, based in Switzerland, as "in danger" which is one level lower than critically endangered.
The paperwork was signed today allowing TAP to become privatly ownered.
Gateway now owns 61% of the former state airline as an inquiry starts in Brussels into whether the rules of ownership have been followed correctly.
As many as 100 British people are believed to have been arrested in France over the course of the last year for their role in attempting to smuggle illegal migrants into the UK.
Migrants gathered in Calais are desperate to cross the Channel by any means, and smugglers are increasingly targeting private cars and vans in addition to lorries, according to Julie Colaert, deputy public prosecutor in Calais.
French winemakers have been more than a little embarrassed to discover that they have named this year’s rosé “crap”.
The St Tropez collective wine cellar chose the name “Mist” to their vintage which they thought was an interesting way to say Made in Saint-Tropez.
The socialist party has demanded that the government makes up its mind on the current Uber taxi situation , calling for "urgent intervention" to regulate the private taxi company which launched its controversial service in Lisbon.
Socialist MP, Rui Paulo Figuereido formally has asked the government whether it considers Uber Portugal’s activities as lawful and duly regulated, or whether the law is being broken.
