Portugal

By CHRIS GRAEME chris.graeme@theresidentgroup.com The amount of money that the Portuguese government fails to collect in taxes would be enough to balance the State Budget to within the three per

by CHRIS GRAEME chris.graeme@theresidentgroup.com Economist Daniel Bessa slammed the State Budget for 2011 as not being sufficient to calm international market jitters. Addressing movers and shakers at a lunch organised

A mad sugar rush in Portuguese supermarkets began to calm on Monday after a weekend which saw shelves up and down the country emptied of the sweet commodity. The rush

Signs that Portugal’s export economy, boosted by sales of transactional goods abroad, was beginning to recover from the recession emerged over the weekend. The country’s external balance of payments deficit

Data collected from the Portuguese meteorological office has shown 2010 to be the wettest year of the past decade, with precipitation levels 20% higher than the average. More than 1,000

Chemists across Portugal are now allowed to open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with no extra charge to the consumer, thanks to a new Government decree. The

People acting as car park attendants in Faro will now need to be licensed, with those operating illegally in future facing fines. The city council hopes this will clamp down

Missing Dutch woman Brenda Paduch, 39, has been found by a journalist from Dutch TV show Vermist (Missing) in Ayamonte, Spain (see Algarve Resident December 10 edition and story online).

Members of the Valverde Bowling Club in Almancil, the first club in Portugal to be owned and run by the members, have voted to join Bowls Portugal. The decision was

Special Report Chris Graeme