Barroso dodges egg attack
Life is not going well for European Commission President Durão Barroso, who recently escaped an egg attack by two angry young men. Barroso was speaking at a conference in Liege,
Beautiful libraries
Two Portuguese libraries are included in a list of the most spectacular libraries in the world published by British newspaper The Telegraph. Coimbra’s Joanina Library, which can be found in
Blue economy
Interest in the sea is growing in the Algarve, with 83 projects representing €29 million in terms of investment being presented recently, informed the regional department for agriculture and fisheries
Bota now battles outdoor discos
Tireless political campaigner Mendes Bota – the man who demanded to know why so many railway toilets were out of order in the Algarve – has now set his sights
Court forces constant revision of bailout programme
Rejection by the constitutional court of some budgetary measures approved by the government is a “particular difficulty” for Portugal, said the International Monetary Fund’s Christine Lagarde. During the annual press
A22 highway traffic continues to fall
The first half of 2013 shows that daily traffic on the A22 highway continues to fall. Statistics provided by the CCDR Algarve (commission for coordination and regional development) show that
Albufeira police in bar brawl
Two GNR police officers were caught up in a violent bar brawl in Albufeira in the early hours of Sunday morning. The pair had been called to a disturbance outside
Algarve office for environmental group
Quercus, the national nature conservation association, is re-opening its Algarve headquarters at Faro’s Rua de S. Luís on October 27. The office had been closed for several years due to
Algarve gets EU cash boost
Central government has given the green-light to a whopping cash boost for the Algarve to be put towards development in the years 2014-2020. The boost increases the region’s access to
Ancient property law reviewed
An ancient law concerning waterfront properties, which threatened to transfer their ownership to the Portuguese State unless it could be proven in court that the land had been in private