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Community | Azores Government offers cultural exchange grants for diaspora applicants Travel | TAP and SATA airlines move forward with privatization Community | Barack Obama in Lisbon praises Portuguese Americans Community | The FABRIC Arts Festival explores themes of identity and place Diplomacy | U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to visit Lisbon this week
 

Community | Azores Government offers cultural exchange grants for diaspora applicants – Azores

The Government of the Azores has opened applications for grant opportunities supporting cultural and community projects in Azorean emigrant communities abroad, as well as educational exchanges and immigrant integration initiatives for 2027.  The funding opportunities are particularly relevant to Azorean organizations, cultural associations, and educational institutions in the United States, Canada, Bermuda, Brazil, and other […]

Travel | TAP and SATA airlines move forward with privatization – Portugal

Portugal has selected Germany’s Lufthansa Group as the strategic investor in TAP Air Portugal, marking a significant turning point for the country’s aviation industry and with important implications for Portuguese communities in the United States, Canada, and beyond.  The selection does not mean that Lufthansa has already taken ownership of TAP. Rather, it represents a […]

Community | Barack Obama in Lisbon praises Portuguese Americans – Portugal

Former United States President Barack Obama returned to Lisbon on Saturday, October 10, where he delivered a keynote address at the 6th edition of the Game Changers Forum.  During his two-day stay in Lisbon, Obama met with Portuguese President António José Seguro at the Palácio de Belém, the official residence of the Portuguese head of […]

Community | The FABRIC Arts Festival explores themes of identity and place – Fall River (MA)

The FABRIC Arts Festival, founded in 2019 and now in its seventh edition, returns to Fall River October 8–11, showcasing Portuguese contemporary art, music, performances, exhibitions, food, and storytelling, exploring themes of migration, identity, memory, belonging, and place and connections across borders. With particular significance in Fall River, historically one of America’s leading textile-manufacturing centers […]

Diplomacy | U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to visit Lisbon this week – Portugal

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is scheduled to visit Portugal this coming week as part of a European tour from October 5–8, with Lisbon as the final stop. Secretary Rubio is expected in Lisbon on Thursday, October 8, following visits to Reykjavík, Iceland, and Athens, Greece.  He is expected to meet with Prime Minister […]

Book: ‘Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious’ by António Damásio – Editor’s Note

10 November 2021

From one of the world’s leading neuroscientists: a succinct, illuminating, wholly engaging investigation of how biology, neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence have given us the tools to unlock the mysteries of human consciousness. In recent decades, many philosophers and cognitive scientists have declared the problem of consciousness unsolvable, but Antonio Damasio is convinced that recent […]

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Opinion: What to expect of the snap election after voters have their say – By Len Port

10 November 2021

Portugal’s early general election could push the country in one of two very different directions. It could create greater national stability, or it could cause long-term political chaos. The minority center-left Socialist Party (PS) has been able to govern remarkably well since 2015, but the surprisingly durable alliance with the far-left has been finally shattered. […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Madeira, People, Politics, Portugal, World

Portugal: Portuguese troops suspect of illicit trafficking – United Nations

10 November 2021

Portuguese peacekeepers, deployed to the Central African Republic (CAR) on United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions, allegedly used military cargo planes to smuggle gold, diamonds and drugs, into Europe. Ten suspects have been arrested, after more than 300 officers raided nearly 100 homes across the country to collect evidence in Lisbon, Bragança, Porto de Mós, Entroncamento, […]

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Euthanasia: Parliament to legalize medical assisted suicide – Portugal

05 November 2021

Portuguese lawmakers voted today in favor of a revised bill to legalize euthanasia and medical assisted suicide, through lethal drugs, to the terminally ill and seriously injured patients. The bill, approved in a 138-84 vote with five abstentions, was sponsored by the ruling Socialist Party with the support of the left-leaning smaller liberal, political factions. […]

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Crisis: President dissolves Parliament and calls for general elections – Portugal

04 November 2021

The President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, announced today that he has dissolved Parliament and called for general elections to be held on January 30, after a lawmaker’s majority rejected the government’s 2022 budget bill last week. The rejection of the bill takes place after six years of a Socialist administration by Prime Minister […]

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Posted in Azores, Featured, Madeira, People, Politics, Portugal, World

COP26: How Portugal leads the way to avert a climate catastrophe – Glasgow, UK

01 November 2021

By Len Port The success or failure of the COP26 climate summit may depend largely on reaching agreement on the transition from fossil fuels to renewables, a process Portugal is making considerable progress on while major polluting countries are lagging far behind. The broadcaster France 24 has produced a series of special reports to coincide […]

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