15 July 2015
Portuguese authorities have suspended the so-called ‘Golden Visas’ scheme, effective July 1, following a scandal involving high level government corruption. The order was issued on Tuesday, July 14, by the Foreigners and Frontiers Services (SEF). The scandal involves former Interior Minister Miguel Macedo, following a recent investigation that led to the imprisonment of 11 officials […]
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15 July 2015
Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued an official statement congratulating the joint agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, reached in Vienna, on Tuesday, July 14. “The Portuguese government expresses its congratulations on the agreement reached in Vienna today on the Iranian nuclear program and takes this occasion to praise the negotiators acting on behalf of […]
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13 July 2015
The documentary ‘Portuguese in California’, directed by Nelson Ponta-Garça, is being presented this summer to Azorean audiences on the islands of São Miguel (July 18), Pico (August 1), Faial (August 4), Terceira (August 8), Graciosa (August 10 and 12) and São Jorge (August 15). A bilingual production, cosponsored by the Government of the Azores, the […]
Posted in Arts&Culture, Azores, Community, Entertainment, Faial, Featured, Film, Graciosa, Heritage, People, Pico, São Jorge, São Miguel, Terceira, World
10 July 2015
Encompassing numerous territories across four different continents, Portugal’s early modern empire depended upon a vast and complex bureaucracy, yet colonial power did not reside solely in the centralized state. In a masterful reconceptualization of the functioning of empire, Erik Lars Myrup’s Power and Corruption in the Early Modern Portuguese World argues that beneath the surface […]
Posted in Angola, Arts&Culture, Books, Brazil, Cape Verde, Damão, Diu, East Timor, Featured, Goa, Guiné-Bissau, Heritage, Macau, Mozambique, Politics, Portugal, São Tomé and Prince
07 July 2015
Portugal’s First Lady, Maria Barroso, wife of former President Mário Soares, has died today, Tuesday July 7, age 90. Maria Barroso died in Lisbon’s Red Cross Hospital, following an injury from a fall at home 10 days ago. She was survived by her husband, two children and several grandchildren. A former actress, Maria Barroso was […]
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01 July 2015
Portuguese tall ship NRP Sagres III is completing a two month sailing tour of the East Coast, United States, with stops in Philadelphia, New York, New Bedford and Boston harbors. In Philadelphia, Sagres participated in the Philadelphia Camden (June 25-28) ‘Tall Ships Challenge 2015’, at the Delaware River waterfront international sea festival, the largest sailing […]
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