The Portuguese government has approved a controversial data sharing agreement with the United States on terrorist suspects that is now to the submitted to Parliament. Portugal was required by the United States to agree by a data sharing agreement on terrorist suspects to be exempt from Visa obligations. The US anti-terrorist information agreement, signed in Washington […]
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Diplomacy: Data accord approved to secure US Visa exemptions – Portugal
Posted on 31 October 2012.
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BFF: Lisbon hosting the Bicycle Film Festival – Portugal
Posted on 30 October 2012.
Lisbon is hosting, for the fourth time, the international Bicycle Film Festival (BFF), taking place November 1-3. The festival brings together all aspects of bicycling, celebrating the bicycle through art, film, music and performance. In Lisbon, the BFF will screen 28 movies from 16 countries. The films will feature established artists to emerging filmmakers who […]
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U.S. Elections: Dual nationality citizens not motivated to vote – Portugal
Posted on 29 October 2012.
There is an estimated 20,000 individuals living in Portugal with dual nationality, but it is not known how many U.S. citizens actually live in the country and how many will cast their vote on the next week presidential election. Yet, a source at the U.S. Embassy in Lisbon told the Portuguese American Journal, that U.S. citizens living abroad are eligible to […]
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Music: “Amigo Aprendiz” named one of the best 2012 ballads – Atlantic Magazine
Posted on 27 October 2012.
The song “Amigo Aprendiz” [Friend Apprentice], a poem by Portuguese Modernist poet, Fernando Pessoa, was named one of the 12 best ballads of 2012, by the prestigious U.S. The Atlantic Magazine. The song, with music by Tiago Bettencourt and interpreted by Fado vocalist, Rodrigo Costa Félix, integrates the singer’s latest album, “Fados de Amor,” issued last […]
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Literature: “Granta” to launch a Portuguese edition – Cambridge,UK
Posted on 27 October 2012.
A Portuguese-language edition of the British literary magazine Granta is to be published from next spring, according to the Lisbon publishing house that is to produce it, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported. “The magazine may be annual, half-yearly or quarterly, but we thought that in Portugal it should be half-yearly, not least because this […]
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Literature: Ana Teresa Pereira winner of the 2012 APE National Grand Prize – Madeira
Posted on 25 October 2012.
The Portuguese Writers’ Association (APE) has awarded its prestigious 2012 APE National Grand Prize “Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela” to author Ana Teresa Pereira for her latest novel , O Lago, [The Lake]. According to the jury, the book was awarded for its “daring” and being “the most original” of those in contention. “What […]
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