07 March 2014
The European People’s Party, meeting in Dublin, Ireland, Friday, has chosen former Luxembourg’s Prime Minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, 59, to succeed José Manuel Durão Barroso as European Commission president. Barroso, a former Prime Minister of Portugal (2002 – 2004) will be leaving the office of European Commission President in October, after having served two full terms. […]
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06 March 2014
Two paleontologists in Portugal, Christophe Hendrickx and Octávio Mateus, from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, have identified a new species of carnivorous dinosaur from 150 million years ago. In a joint study, the two scientists concluded that the fossils of a dinosaur preserved in the Lourinhã Museum, in Portugal, which were thought to belong to the Torvosaurus […]
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05 March 2014
‘Being the Nação in the Eternal City’, a new book by James William Nelson Novoa, explores in a set of case studies focusing on seven carefully chosen figures, the presence of Portuguese individuals of Jewish origin in Rome after the initial creation of a tribunal of the Portuguese Inquisition in 1531. The book delves into […]
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04 March 2014
The Azorean-Jewish Heritage Foundation and Temple Beth El of Fall River (MA) are sponsoring a conference by historian José de Almeida Mello, coordinator of the Sahar Hassamain Synagogue restoration project in Ponta Delgada, Azores. Mello, who is the chief librarian of the Ponta Delgada Municipal Library, was invited in 2003, by the Israeli Community of […]
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01 March 2014
By Len Port, Contributor(*) Portugal’s burgeoning ‘Golden Visa’ program could see a huge upsurge in applications, particularly from wealthy Chinese, as a result of the recent scrapping of a controversial investor scheme in Canada. News of this comes as new measures are about to be introduced to stop alleged abuse of the program from within […]
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28 February 2014
Portugal’s footwear industry is to invest Euro20 million this year and next year in marketing its products abroad, to establish itself as “the most sophisticated in the world.” The goal is to double exports over the next decade. At a meeting with journalists on Thursday in Porto, the executive director of the industry association, APICCAPS, […]
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