18 July 2014
By Millicent Borges Accardi, Contributor (*) The award-winning poet Nancy Vieira Couto is a Portuguese-American of Azorean descent. She received a BS in Education from Bridgewater State College and an MFA in English from Cornell University. Her writing awards include two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and an American Antiquarian Society research residency. Her […]
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18 July 2014
The former president of the Azorean Parliament, Guilherme Reis Leite, defended Thursday that the Azoreans in the diaspora should have the right to participate in political process in the Azores. Speaking at the 1st Summer University Conference, held on Terceira island July 15-18, he claimed that the Azoreans in the diaspora should have the right to […]
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17 July 2014
Collected in 1963 in Metamorfoses, Jorge de Sena’s sixth volume of poetry, “Carta a meus filhos sobre os fuzilamentos de Goya” first appeared in the literary pages of the Brazilian newspaper O Estado de São Paulo on December 10, 1960. All the poems in Metamorfoses, as Sena indicates, were inspired by works of art, supplemented […]
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16 July 2014
The employment rate in Portugal remained at 62% in the first quarter of this year unchanged from the previous quarter and up 1.7% year-on-year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reported Wednesday. However, amongst the younger population, between 15 to 24 years old, the employment rate fell back from 23% in the final quarter […]
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16 July 2014
Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho sounded the alarm Tuesday by saying that every political party and social partner should throw their weight into the debate on a national strategy capable of raising Portugal’s birth rate, the lowest in 60 years. Speaking as leader of the Partido Social Democrata (PSD), the main ruling party, he was […]
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15 July 2014
In Portugal the richest 1% of the population owns one quarter (21%) of the country’s wealth, according to a survey by Philip Vermeulen, a senior economist at the European Central Bank. Among the nine countries in the Eurozone analyzed, Portugal is the third country with a greater concentration of wealth, just behind Austria and Germany. […]
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