Pedro Nuno Santos wins the Socialist Party primaries
On the evening of Saturday December 16, 2023, former Infrastructure Minister Pedro Nuno Santos won the Socialist Party primaries in Portugal, ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for March. He won…
AL operators will have to pay CEAL in 2024.
Tax authorities publish coefficients on last day. The coefficients needed to calculate the extraordinary levy on the Accommodation Local sector were published in Diário da República on the last working…
Rehabilitating a fortress in Angola? It’s “an outrage to Portugal’s history”
Today, Chega questioned the government over the 34 million euro funding for the rehabilitation and equipping of the São Francisco do Penedo Fortress in Angola, considering it “an outrage to…
Water from dams only enough for eight months
Beneath the exhausted dams, the dried-up irrigation channels and the citrus and avocado orchards, rivers and streams flow that form considerable bodies of water stored between the rocks. The Algarve…
Police investigate cocaine labs in Portugal
Following the discovery of a laboratory in Guimarães capable of producing more than 100 kilos of cocaine a week, the police are investigating other cases. It was in Guimarães, in…
Air link between Bragança and the Algarve at risk
The route linking Trás-os-Montes to the Algarve could be at risk, Sérgio Leal, flight director for Sevenair, which operates the route, told Lusa today. “As far as Sevenair is concerned,…
Emigration: Northern Portugal is one of the regions in Europe with the greatest loss of young people
Data from the European Commission shows that the Tâmega e Sousa region faces the greatest risk of elderly dependency, as 4.3 people per 100,000 inhabitants are lost every year. Qualified…
Prices of essential goods to rise next week
The basic food basket is going up to its highest value ever, increasing by 20 euros in a week, 63 more than last year. Rents, electricity, telecommunications and various forms…
Turismo de Portugal invested a record 800,000€
Turismo de Portugal has invested around 800,000 euros this year in promoting its gastronomy, the largest amount ever, half of which will be invested in the first exclusively Portuguese Michelin…
Six people involved in kidnapping of elderly man in Algarve arrested in Spain
The 82-year-old Portuguese was kidnapped on August 25 in the Algarve and taken to Barcelona. Portuguese and Spanish police authorities have arrested six people in Malaga (Spain) suspected of being…