08 May 2011
Portugal has agreed to a three-year 78 billion-euro (US$116 billion) bailout with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund but Finland, the only EU country that needs parliament approval before agreeing on European financial matters including requests for bailouts, may vote to block the agreement. After general elections on April 17, Finland is currently […]
08 May 2011
Now that Portugal has agreed with the EU and the IMF to a bailout package to ease its impending debt obligations, Finland is debating whether or not to reject the settlement in Parliament. While it is still unclear what the Finns will do on the matter, the following video presention — “To Finland, from Portugal” — is […]
07 May 2011
New poll figures released Friday show Socialist caretaker Prime Minister José Socrates still leading for the June 5th elections. The Socialists had 36 percent of the votes, the center-right Social-Democratic Party (PSD) 34 percent, and the right-wing Democratic and Social Center (CDS) 10 percent. According to poll figures released on April 21st, outgoing socialist Prime […]
07 May 2011
Former President of Portugal, Mário Soares, one of the principal craftsmen of the adhesion of Portugal to the European Economic Community in 1985, said in a recent interview for EuroNews that he believes the European Union is in crises because the markets are disoriented and the dominance of economics and business is a tragedy for any country. […]
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06 May 2011
Portuguese researcher João Gonçalves is the recipient of the Grand Challenges Exploration Award granted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a research project underway aimed at eliminating HIV-1 viruses from infected organisms. Professor João Gonçalves teaches at the Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade de Lisboa and is a researcher at the Instituto […]
06 May 2011
Hospital services, schools, courts, public offices, trash collection an many other public services have been disrupted Friday, in Portugal, by public workers on a 24 hour general strike organized by the National Federation of Civil Service Unions, the biggest disruption in the country in two decades. Workers are protesting against austerity measures resulting from a US$115 […]
