The Central Court in Lisbon sentenced two men each to ten years in prison for trying to import 660 kilos of cocaine hidden on a yacht.
The pair had started their doomed voyage from the Caribbean where one of them bought the 13 metre yacht from a Spaniard living in the Dominican Republic: they also bought a shipment of cocaine.
The cheapest prices for in the European Union family of nations were in Poland for food and consumer items and in Bulgaria for alcohol, restaurants and hotels last year.
Prices for clothing were lowest in Hungary while the Czech Republic offered the lowest cost for consumer electronics and cars.
Conservation efforts to save Portugal and Spain’s iconic lynx have been outlined in the Guardian today which has highlighted the number of the rare animals that are being run over and killed on Spain’s roads.
The lynx breeding centre in Silves successfully is producing lynx for later release into the mountainous regions of central Spain and the lower Alentejo in Portugal but the main killer is not hunters or poison, it is road users.
One of the Dutch tourists, seriously injured in Wednesday night’s horrific coach crash on the A22 near the Paderne turnoff, today died in Faro hospital bringing the death toll to four.
The 64-year-old woman’s death was confirmed today by a hospital spokesman.
TAP employees will hold a protest on 24 June, the day of the signing of the sale agreement between the government and the successful bidder, Gateway.
The demonstration is in protest at the airline’s privatisation and was decided today by the workers’ unions and Groundforce.
Three Dutch tourists died last night as their transfer coach plunged from the Via do Infante motorway onto the road below near the Paderne exit.
Two women and one man were confirmed dead as emergency services arrived to help the 31 passengers who were wounded, eight of them seriously.
Germany, which was on course to introduce a controversial road toll, has postponed its implementation after the European Commission challenged it with legal action.
According to the Commission, the toll would discriminate against foreign drivers. The scheme would charge everyone an annual fee of up to €130 to use the Autobahn network and other major highways.
The richest 0.2% of the globe’s population now controls more than 20% of world assets.
A boom in the global stock markets have helped create almost one million new millionaires as well as increasing the wealth of seriously affluent people.
