Lisbon council “at sixes and sevens” on how to pay back €58 million pocketed by illegal tax
After vowing that it would open a special counter for all the people who had stumped up for the “illegal” Civil Protection tax charged between 2015 and 2017, Lisbon borough
Driver in northern Portugal snaps up 1000 hp Merc for €3 million
Somewhere in Portugal’s north there is one swanky driver behind the wheel of a Project One – Mercedes’ plug-in hybrid supercar able to reach speeds of 350 km/ hour, with
US ambassador says relations with Portugal “at an all time high”
Giving his first interview since taking office last August (click here), US ambassador George Glass has said that relations between the two countries are currently at an “all time high”.
Portimonense 1-2 Sporting Braga
Too little too late Portimonense are still looking for their first win of 2018 after losing 2-1 at home to Sporting Braga last Saturday night. Like so many times this
Camper tourists’ pet dogs killed by “poisoned chouriço” in Pera
A camp site in Pera appears to have been targeted by insidious animal killers. As far as GNR police can tell, poisoned rounds of chouriço (sausage) were thrown on the
Plan to integrate gypsies “has failed”
What sounded like a very positive government plan to integrate gypsy communities has been deemed a failure. CESIS (the social intervention study centre) has put the blame on it being
Laser arrest could carry 10-year jail sentence
An 18-year-old admitting to having shone a laser at a light aircraft using Ponte de Sor airfield (Portalegre) could end up with a 10-year jail sentence. The youngster was “identified”
Angola ‘all over media’ as court case involving former vice president gets officially ‘separated’
Angola is all over the media this week: whether it is the fact that the new regime under João Lourenço is closing nine embassies and 18 consulates in Lisbon, Faro
Mário Centeno makes ‘debút’ today as Eurogroup president
Portugal’s “financial Ronaldo” and finance-minister-who-can-do-no-wrong (yet…) Mário Centeno is today chairing his first meeting as president of the Eurogroup – the claque of Eurozone finance ministers who get together ‘informally’
Race is on to drill for oil off west Algarve coastline before May
The race is on. Clearly-determined oil companies Eni and Galp want to start drilling off the west coast of the Algarve by May. Despite a parliamentary vote last December stipulating