Judge Carlos Alexandre decided that the former prime minister José Sócrates should remain in Evora prison.
Sócrates would not consent to wearing an electronic bracelet on home arrest so the judge decided he could stay put.
Drivers who have managed to pay tolls for travel on the Algarve’s Via do Infante will not be best pleased to read that those who did not bother to pay, or found the system too complicated to pay within the allotted period, are to qualify for large discounts.
The formerly free SCUT roads in Portugal, including the Algarve's A22-Via do Infante, were deemed illegal by the European Commission in 2011, yet the government continues to allow authoirsed companies to collect money from drivers, and applies the full force of the state's coercive collection system to non-payers despite toll companies not being government bodies.
Work started at the beginning of June to fix the anchors to buildings along Faro’s shopping streets in preparation for a series of shade sails to keep shoppers cooler in the summer months.
Both traders’ organisation ACRAL and the local Business Development Association for Faro’s Historical area are keen to upgrade the shopping facilities by keeping people shaded as they meander.
Perhaps only in countries dependent on billions of euros of grant income could there be a €20,000 dinner to celebrate spending all the money.
Paulo Portas, pictured below, lacking any serious portfolio as deputy prime minister, allied himself temporarily to agriculture when he felt some of the EU-fuelled glory surely must shine on his wise head.
The president of the Portuguese Press Association, João Palmeiro, today said that it would best that the 1975 law for electoral coverage should be left to "die in peace" and that there should be no law specifically to restrict the press during election periods.
Under proposed law changes, journalists still will have to submit work schedules and applications to cover politicians and election events to a multi-party committee, a process which the association sees as outdated and unworkable in a free society where journalists should be free to cover what they want, when they want, not to be open to a fine of €50,000.
The resort town of Magaluf is trying to pull its reputation up by new regulations against anti-social behavior, such as drinking in the street, bar crawls and even jumping off balconies into swimming pools.
The measures came into effect today, Tuesday, just before the bulk of tourists arrive. Outdoor drinking will be illegal from 10pm to 8am, alcohol cannot be sold between midnight and 8am.
The Dutch will come to the aid of the US which is running out of eggs as a result of a serious attack of bird flu.
Nearly 47 million chickens have died so far in the H5N2 virus outbreak which spread rapidly through farms in the Midwest in the early spring.
Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho denied today that he had ever encouraged young Portuguese to seek employment abroad, saying that it all is just an "urban myth."
"There are few urban myths, one of them is that I encouraged young people to emigrate. I challenge anyone to remember any speech or written document from me in this regard," said Passos Coelho talking to reporters in Coimbra.
