11 July 2013
The Portuguese benchmark index (PSI-20) opened 0.9% down this Thursday after President Aníbal Cavaco Silva stunned the nation in a speech asking for a national salvation alliance between the three major parties and calling midterm elections for July 2014. In the rest of Europe, stocks were trading with gains today. “The hour of responsibility of […]
10 July 2013
In a much anticipated address, today Portugal’s President Anibal Cavaco Silva rejected the opposition parties’ demands for early elections in September 2013, while keeping the coalition government of Prime Minister Passos Coelho in place and calling early elections for July, 2014. The President also proposed the formation of a “national salvation” alliance with the major […]
10 July 2013
New York based teather production Yinzerspielen is presenting Casa de Pessoa an international performance collective bringing Fernando Pessoa to life. The performance takes place, July 21, 25, and 27, at 9pm, at the IATI’ Theater, 64 East 4th Street, Manhattan, NY,NY. Using its audience as material, the immersive performance is part of the IATI Theater’s […]
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09 July 2013
By George Monteiro (*) It was singularly fitting, from my perspective, that this book had its launching at Lisbon’s Grémio Literário, that venerable institution founded, it is said, by Eça de Queiroz. Over forty years ago, in the summer of 1980, to be exact, I was the luncheon guest of João Gaspar Simões, whom I […]
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08 July 2013
Portugal’s President Aníbal Cavaco Silva is holding two days of a new round of meetings, with representatives of the major parliamentary parties, to address the political crisis resulting from the resignation, last week, of Minister of Finance Vitor Gaspar and Paulo Portas Minister of Foreign Affairs. On Monday morning, the President held a meeting with […]
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07 July 2013
In a prepared statement to the press, on Sunday President Vasco Cordeiro, the head of the Regional Government of the Azores, said that holding early elections is the “only way to create, not just the possibility of a fresh solution leading to government stability but, and above all, to rebuild a new relationship of trust […]
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