Portugal

A GERMAN citizen who had been visiting Portugal regularly for more than five years was arrested in Lisbon on June 27 on charges of paedophilia. A spokesman for the Polícia

THE PORTUGUESE state has at least one year to decide whether to buy a painting of immense historical and cultural value that unexpectedly surfaced in Paris. The work, Súplica de

COMPANIES HELD by the Amorim Investment Group, which controls the country’s largest cork producer Corticeira Amorim, are being investigated over alleged financial misdealing as part of Operation Hurricane (Furacão). Amorim

By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com THE WIFE of former Portugal President Mário Soares, Maria Barroso Soares, and entrepreneur, business mogul and art collector Joe Berardo were among the guests at this

By: CHRIS GRAEME chris@the-resident.com EVERY COUNTRY has a watershed date, a defining event that changed it politically, socially and culturally forever. For the French it was the 1789 Revolution, for

PORTUGAL’S NATIONAL carrier TAP looks set to be dogged by continuing strikes for the rest of June and July if deals over working hours and pay cannot be brokered with

TRAVELLING IN a taxi is set to become more expensive as fares are due to increase as a direct result of the rise in diesel prices in Portugal. The increase

By: EDUARDO OLIVEIRA COSTA Eduardo Oliveira Costa is a journalist and publisher of several newspapers across Portugal. He is on the board of several organisations, is president of a football

LITTLE BENEFIT has come to public consumers from the reduction of the highest band of VAT (IVA) in Portugal, which reduced from 21 per cent to 20 per cent on

BOMBEIROS IN the Alentejo regions of Ourique, Castro Verde, Almodôvar, Aljustrel and Odemira battled to bring fires under control seven kilometres west of Ourique on Saturday. The flames had threatened