Portugal’s prime minister has said many times that Portugal is not Greece as the problems the Greeks are undergoing are not on the same scale as the ‘local difficulty’ in Portugal
Enter easyJet to give us its take on the matter while promoting a new route to the Greek paradise of Kefalonia which seems to have moved to the north west of Portugal.
World leaders have been blamed for the shameful neglect of millions of refugees.
Calling the situation the worst displacement crisis since WWII, Amnesty International´s report said thousands have died trying to flee wars in the Middle East and Africa.
David Neeleman said today that he plans to float TAP on the Lisbon stock exchange in 2020 and expects a valuation of €1.3 billion.
Gateway, which soon will own 61% of TAP, wants the airline to be quoted on the stock exchange within five years
The British taxman has forked out £600,000 of taxpayers’ money to informants this year.
It was a record sum, exceeding the previous £402,000 of the year before, and represents a 50% leap in just one year.
Despite campaigns against large cruise ships reaching the tip of the Grand Canal in Venice, the city’s recent mayoral election may result in more massive ships penetrating the World Heritage Site.
The election victory went to Luigi Brugnaro, a businessman who supports the cruise industry.
Portugal soon must adopt new EC rules on bank transfers which intrude further into citizen’s lives.
The current €10,000 limit below which citizen’s bank account movements remain of no concern to the Bank of Portugal, is to be lowered to €1,000 in an EC rule that has used the twin excuses of ‘HSBC money laundering’ and ‘funding terrorism.’
A survey of nearly 700 government services and departments has revealed that in most cases measures that were designed to prevent corruption have not been adopted.
The excuse given has been ‘a lack of resources.’ The conclusion of the survey of 643 organisations in the public sector, including municipalities, public institutions, and regional and national directorates representing a total of about 400,000 civil servants, is that there is a lack of staff to deal with anti-corruption measures, although such measures are of course a good idea.
Jorge Moreia is determined to thwart those Ria Formosa islanders who are fighting for their homes and way of life, and is to appeal against the Loulé court judgement that the demolition crews must cease their work.
Moreia has instructed the Polis Ria Formosa Society to come up with a new study on the 'positive environmental impacts for nature' that will be achieved after 800 houses have been demolished and the land cleared of inconvenient humans.
