Portuguese workers nationwide will protest again Saturday, September 29, against the latest government issued austerity rules. Large gatherings of protesters are expected to concentrate in Lisbon and Porto, Portugal’s largest cities. The protests are being called by CGTP (Central Geral dos Trabalhadores Portugueses) the largest Portuguese union federation, representing 727,000 workers in 81 unions. Last […]
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Labor: Portuguese workers to protest against extreme austerity policies – Update
Posted on 25 September 2012.
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Elected: President Dos Santos to be sworn for five term in office – Angola
Posted on 24 September 2012.
President José Eduardo dos Santos is to be sworn President of Angola, for a five-year term in office, Wednesday, following the Angolan Constitutional Court’s announcement that all appeals presented by opposition parties were dismissed as groundless. The official final results of the 31 August polls gave dos Santos and his MPLA party 71.28% of the […]
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Travel: Tourists from the US are the fastest group visiting – Portugal
Posted on 21 September 2012.
Tourists from the United States are the fastest growing group visiting Portugal, according to the Portuguese national tourist board, Lusa reported. The number of US visitors who came to the country in the first six months of the year was up 7.5% compared to a year earlier, at 135,000, putting the US ninth in terms […]
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Heritage: Portuguese Americans consuming more products from old country
Posted on 20 September 2012.
Portuguese Americans in the US are buying more products from their homeland in a bid to help it overcome its economic crisis, according to the government official responsible for liaising with Portuguese citizens abroad, Lusa reported Thursday. At the end of a four-day visit to the US, Secretary of State for Communities, José Cesário, said he […]
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Profile: José Luís Peixoto has a gift for emotion and sensibility – Essay
Posted on 18 September 2012.
By Richard Simas, Contributor (*) José Luís Peixoto is a conduit for emotion. Sensations emerge immediately in the opening lines of his fiction, poetry, and non-fiction as they do in his voice the moment he begins reading or talking about writing. Whether evoking the starkly luminous Alentejo landscape of his youth or joyfully holding his recently […]
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Labor: Portuguese workers strike back at austerity measures – Update
Posted on 17 September 2012.
Workers at the Portuguese oil refineries in Sines and Matosinhos went out on strike Monday. About 90% of workers had joined the protests expected to last for the next three days. The protests are against “unacceptable” changes to collective bargaining agreements which include a pay rise for workers of “just” 1%, while the company made a […]
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