18 October 2011
The New Yorker Out Loud online edition looks at a decade of drug use decriminalization policies in Portugal. Last week, reporter at large Michael Specter and commentator Blake Eskin discussed live how Portugal’s response to drug abuse, as public health issue rather than a crime, can offer lessons to the United States. In 2001, Portugal […]
Posted in Politics
18 October 2011
President Aníbal Cavaco Silva has summoned the consultative Council of State to meet on October 25 to address Portugal’s current financial and economic crisis, it was announced Monday. The meeting of the Council of State, the eighth since Cavaco Silva became president in 2006 and the first for the present legislative session, will address issues […]
18 October 2011
According to opinion poll survey results released Monday, the majority of Portuguese citizens (96%) perceive the economic situation in their country to be “bad” against the European Union average of 67% for the 27 member states. The opinion poll was carried out by Eurobarometer, between June 4 and 19, after the EU/IMF bailout package took […]
17 October 2011
The President of Portugal, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, will visit Washington on November 12, where he will be a guest at the Portuguese American Leadership Council (PALCUS), to participate in the 15th PALCUS Annual Gala and the 20th anniversary celebration of the organization. Prior to the Gala, President Cavaco Silva will attend a meeting of Portuguese-American elected […]
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17 October 2011
The two largest Portuguese union federations have agreed Monday to call for a general strike for a date to be announced “very soon,” their leaders said. The announcement was made by CGTP leader Carvalho da Silva at the end of a meeting with João Proença the leader of UGT. They didn’t advance a concrete date […]
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16 October 2011
The New Bedford chapter of the Prince Henry Society will honor Manuel Calado as its 2011 Person of the Year, at an event to be held Saturday, October 22, at 6pm, at the Century House in Acushnet, MA. Manuel Calado, 88, is a veteran community journalist, based in New Bedford, where he has been a radio […]
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