Posted on 07 March 2014. Tags: Angela Merkel, Dublin, elections, European Commission, European Parliament, European People’s Party, Ireland, Jean-Claude Juncker, José Manuel Durão Barroso, Luxembourg, Michel Barnier, ocngress, Portugal, Portuguese, preme minister
The European People’s Party, meeting in Dublin, Ireland, Friday, has chosen former Luxembourg’s Prime Minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, 59, to succeed José Manuel Durão Barroso as European Commission president. Barroso, a former Prime Minister of Portugal (2002 – 2004) will be leaving the office of European Commission President in October, after having served two full terms. […]
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Posted in Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World
Posted on 06 March 2014. Tags: Christophe Hendrickx, dinosaur, Europe, Late Jurassic, Lisbon, Lourinhã Museum. Museu Lourinhã, Octávio Mateus, PLoS ONE, Portugal, Portuguese, Torvosaurus Gurneyi, Torvosaurus Tanneri, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Upper Jurassic
Two paleontologists in Portugal, Christophe Hendrickx and Octávio Mateus, from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, have identified a new species of carnivorous dinosaur from 150 million years ago. In a joint study, the two scientists concluded that the fossils of a dinosaur preserved in the Lourinhã Museum, in Portugal, which were thought to belong to the Torvosaurus […]
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Posted on 05 March 2014. Tags: Catholic, Catholicism, diaspora, history, Iberian, Inquisition, Jewish, Jews, Portugal, Portuguese, religion, Rome
‘Being the Nação in the Eternal City’, a new book by James William Nelson Novoa, explores in a set of case studies focusing on seven carefully chosen figures, the presence of Portuguese individuals of Jewish origin in Rome after the initial creation of a tribunal of the Portuguese Inquisition in 1531. The book delves into […]
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Posted in Books, Education, Featured, Heritage, Portugal, World
Posted on 04 March 2014. Tags: Azorean-Jewish Heritage Foundation, Azores, Fall River, heritage, Jewish, José de Almeida Mello, legacy, MA, Ponta Delgada, Portugal, Portuguese, restoration, Sabar Hassamain Synagogue, Temple Beth El
The Azorean-Jewish Heritage Foundation and Temple Beth El of Fall River (MA) are sponsoring a conference by historian José de Almeida Mello, coordinator of the Sahar Hassamain Synagogue restoration project in Ponta Delgada, Azores. Mello, who is the chief librarian of the Ponta Delgada Municipal Library, was invited in 2003, by the Israeli Community of […]
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Posted in Azores, Community, Conferences, Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
Posted on 01 March 2014.
By Len Port, Contributor(*) Portugal’s burgeoning ‘Golden Visa’ program could see a huge upsurge in applications, particularly from wealthy Chinese, as a result of the recent scrapping of a controversial investor scheme in Canada. News of this comes as new measures are about to be introduced to stop alleged abuse of the program from within […]
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Posted in Azores, Canada, Community, Featured, Madeira, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal
Posted on 28 February 2014.
Portugal’s footwear industry is to invest Euro20 million this year and next year in marketing its products abroad, to establish itself as “the most sophisticated in the world.” The goal is to double exports over the next decade. At a meeting with journalists on Thursday in Porto, the executive director of the industry association, APICCAPS, […]
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