The Espírito Santo financial group is the subject of various different investigations and that pre-date the scandals that have broken in recent days and weeks, an official source from Portugal’s Attorney General’s office told Lusa Friday. “There are enquiries ongoing related to this subject and that are actually ongoing since before the news reports of […]
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Update: Under investigation Banco Espírito Santo downfall goes global – Portugal
Posted on 18 July 2014.
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Across the Universe: Interview with Nancy Vieira Couto
Posted on 18 July 2014.
By Millicent Borges Accardi, Contributor (*) The award-winning poet Nancy Vieira Couto is a Portuguese-American of Azorean descent. She received a BS in Education from Bridgewater State College and an MFA in English from Cornell University. Her writing awards include two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and an American Antiquarian Society research residency. Her […]
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Terceira: Azoreans in the diaspora should have the right to vote – Azores
Posted on 18 July 2014.
The former president of the Azorean Parliament, Guilherme Reis Leite, defended Thursday that the Azoreans in the diaspora should have the right to participate in political process in the Azores. Speaking at the 1st Summer University Conference, held on Terceira island July 15-18, he claimed that the Azoreans in the diaspora should have the right to […]
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Poem: A Letter to My Children on Goya’s Paintings of the Executions – By Jorge de Sena
Posted on 17 July 2014.
Collected in 1963 in Metamorfoses, Jorge de Sena’s sixth volume of poetry, “Carta a meus filhos sobre os fuzilamentos de Goya” first appeared in the literary pages of the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de São Paulo on December 10, 1960. All the poems in Metamorfoses, as Sena indicates, were inspired by works of art, supplemented […]
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OECD: Employment rate at 62% unchanged from previous quarter – Portugal
Posted on 16 July 2014.
The employment rate in Portugal remained at 62% in the first quarter of this year unchanged from the previous quarter and up 1.7% year-on-year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reported Wednesday. However, amongst the younger population, between 15 to 24 years old, the employment rate fell back from 23% in the final quarter […]
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Passos Coelho: Prime Minister calls for national debate on declining birth rate – Portugal
Posted on 16 July 2014.
Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho sounded the alarm Tuesday by saying that every political party and social partner should throw their weight into the debate on a national strategy capable of raising Portugal’s birth rate, the lowest in 60 years. Speaking as leader of the Partido Social Democrata (PSD), the main ruling party, he was […]
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