19 February 2014
Portuguese business manager Carlos Tavares, 55, former Renault executive, will take over as PSA/Peugeot-Citroen’s CEO next month. Tavares joined PSA in January in preparation for the appointment. He will take over from Philippe Varin as president of the managing board on March 31. In June 2011, Carlos Tavares, the former head of Nissan Motor for the […]
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19 February 2014
‘The Transformation Book’, which belongs to Pessoa’s pre-heteronymic period, contains a series of fragments written in English, Portuguese, and French, none of which were ever published during Pessoa’s lifetime. Conceived by Pessoa in 1908, a year of great social and cultural transformation in Portugal, The Transformation Book was designed to reflect and advance social and […]
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18 February 2014
The film “Sostiene Pereira” directed by Roberto Faenza, with an award winning performance by Marcello Mastroianni, based in a novel by Italian author Antonio Tabuccchi, will be the first movie featured in the new “Lisbon Movie Tours” guided visits project. Designed by Liliana Navarra, an Italian resident in Lisbon, the project is based on films […]
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18 February 2014
The Regional Director for the Azorean Communities, Paulo Teves, will be visiting California and Massachusetts, February 20-25, in representation of the Government of the Azores. On the West Coast, February 21, Teves will meet with a group of students of Azorean descent in San Francisco to address the promoting the Azorean cultural heritage amongst the […]
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17 February 2014
The President of Portugal, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, will be visiting San Francisco in the United States and Toronto in Canada from February 25 through March 1. The President is accompanied by Vasco Cordeiro, President of the Government of the Azores, and Rui Machete, the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs. Traveling with the First Lady, Maria […]
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17 February 2014
Portuguese Under-Secretary of Tourism, Adolfo Mesquita Nunes, announced in Tell Aviv, Israel, that Portugal is granting citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews who were expelled from the country five centuries ago. The announcement follows a recent amendment to Portugal’s “Law on Nationality” that allows descendants of Jews who were expelled in the Portuguese Inquisition to […]
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