23 January 2022
By Len Port In the run-up to Portugal’s national legislative election, it’s worth remembering that this country is internationally recognized as a stable parliamentary democracy with a multiparty political system and free and fair elections every four years – except the timing of this latest is different. The Prime Minister holds the most executive power […]
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19 January 2022
Portugal has surpassed for the first time the barrier of 50,000 daily COVID’19 cases this Wednesday, since the beginning of the pandemic. According to the Portuguese health authority, in the last 24 hours, the country recorded 52,549 more cases of infection and 33 fatalities. Of the new cases of infection recorded today 22,455 occurred in […]
17 January 2022
Starting in January 2022, Netflix will feature five films by five Portuguese women directors and producers – Catarina Vasconcelos, Raquel Castro, Margarida Gil, Marta Ribeiro and Maria Clara Escobar – on partnership with Portuguese Film Academy. The five films were selected by a jury, aiming at giving more visibility to women who have been involved […]
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12 January 2022
British Airways has announced plans to fly non-stop from London Heathrow to São Miguel and Terceira islands in the Azores. The São Miguel route will start on July 2 and will run until September 3, while services to Terceira will run from July 10 until August 28. The airline will fly to the islands once […]
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01 January 2022
POLITICS The first major event for the Portuguese population will be the national election on 30 January. Hopefully the turnout of voters will be higher than usual and give one of the parties an overall majority, or at least lead to a working coalition to stabilise the country for the next four years. Bolstered by […]
26 December 2021
The literature of the Peninsular War is rich with vivid source material – letters, diaries, memoirs, and dispatches – but most of it was written by British soldiers or by the French and their allies. As a result, the history and experience of the Portuguese forces – which by 1812 composed close to half of […]
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