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CCRAI: Azorean Government promotes full integration of foreign workers Viva! Portuguese nation celebrates 50 years of democracy and freedom! Culture: Literary residencies created for world writers Opinion: Portugal vows to cooperate with the European Union – Len Port Travel Alert: Visa challenges ahead of the Paris Olympics
 

CCRAI: Azorean Government promotes full integration of foreign workers – Azores

The Azorean Government has implemented the “Guide to Hiring Foreign Citizens in the Azores,” a policy aimed at developing initiatives and strategies to promote the full integration of foreign workers. The document offers “important information” for employers and future foreign employees in the Region. Acknowledging their active contribution to the enrichment of Azorean society in […]

Viva! Portuguese nation celebrates 50 years of democracy and freedom! – Portugal

Portugal celebrates today the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos), the nation’s “Freedom Day,” when a military coup ended the Estado Novo authoritarian regime, led by Antonio Oliveira Salazar, Europe’s longest-lived dictatorship and 13 years of colonial wars in Africa. On April 25, 1974, some 200 to 300 officers calling themselves the […]

Culture: Literary residencies created for world writers – Azores

The President of the Azorean Government, José Manuel Bolieiro, announced the creation of a pioneering literary residency program for world writers. The initiative was revealed during a book launch event at the Letras Lavadas bookshop in Ponta Delgada. The occasion marked the release of David Lopes’s new book Uma Varanda Sobre Tóquio, Almedina (2023) Polish […]

Opinion: Portugal vows to cooperate with the European Union – Len Port

New Prime Minister, Luis Montenegro, was speaking in Brussels this week when he emphasized that Portugal has a “very strong commitment” to the European Union, both in domestic and foreign policy, especially regarding Ukraine and the Middle East. Portugal’s minister of foreign affairs, Paulo Rangel, personally told the Iranian ambassador to Lisbon that his country […]

Travel Alert: Visa challenges ahead of the Paris Olympics – France

As the countdown to the 2024 Olympics in Paris begins, Portuguese are gearing up to follow the games, but many may face unexpected hurdles in the form of visa requirements. With the Olympics fast approaching, world enthusiasts and supporters are busy making preparations, from travel arrangements to ensuring they have the necessary documentation to enter […]

Position | FLAD/Saab Visiting Professorship in Portuguese Studies – UMass, Lowell

23 March 2024

The Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) in Lisbon, Portugal, and the Saab Center for Portuguese Studies in the University of Massachusetts Lowell College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences announce the FLAD/Saab Visiting Professorship in Portuguese Studies for Spring Semester 2025. This program is a three-year collaboration that sponsors a one-semester a year, open-rank, Visiting Professor […]

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Posted in Community, Education, Featured, Organizations, World

Opinion | Portuguese diaspora defines national elections – Len Port

21 March 2024

The more than 1.5 million Portuguese registered voters living abroad had the final say in the outcome of March 10 Portugal’s parliamentary early election. The overall tally, concluded this week, showed 28.84% for the center-right Democratic Alliance (PSD/AD) and 28% for the center-left Socialist Party (PS).  The turnout was 59.8%. With the counting finished, President […]

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

Book | Welcome to Forever | by Nathan Tavares – Editor’s Note

20 March 2024

Fox is a memory editor – one of the best – gifted with the skill to create real life in the digital world. When he wakes up in Field of Reeds Center for Memory Reconstruction with no idea how he got there, the therapists tell him he was a victim in a terrorist bombing by […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Books, Community, Featured, Interviews, People, World

Travel Alert | TAP aviation workers announce three-month long strike – Portugal

20 March 2024

The National Union of Civil Aviation Workers (SINTAC), representing TAP Air Portugal ground workers, has issued a three-month strike notice regarding overtime work between March 28th and July 30th. The union claims an agreement for salary increases, of between 6% and 10%, retroactive to July 2023, was not honored by the carrier and that TAP […]

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Posted in Community, Featured, Organizations, Portugal, Travel, World

Nuno Júdice: Most prized Portuguese contemporary poet died – Portugal

18 March 2024

Nuno Júdice, one of the most significant figures in contemporary Portuguese literature, known for his contributions as a poet, essayist and literary critic, died at age 74. Born on April 29, 1949, in Algarve, Portugal, he wrote his first poems when he was eight years old. Influenced by structuralism, he made his literary début in […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Awards, Books, Featured, Heritage, Interviews, People, Portugal, World

António Costa: Portugal’s gift to the United Nations – New York, NY

18 March 2024

The outgoing Prime Minister of Portugal, António Costa, is in New York this Monday to meet with the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and to participate in a significant cultural contribution, the donation of a tapestry titled “Coral Vivo” by Vanessa Barragão, which will be in the permanent exhibition at the UN‘s headquarters. The symbolic gesture […]

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Posted in Arts&Culture, Featured, Heritage, Interviews, Organizations, People, Portugal, World

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