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Established in 1977, The Portugal News is published weekly. [2] The paper is the longest established English-language newspaper in publication in Portugal. It is politically neutral and carries current comment on the latest political developments each week. News on a local and national level is carried from throughout Portugal, with the aim of ...
Reuters. May 15, 2024 at 3:28 PM. LISBON - Portugal will build a new international airport in the municipality of Alcochete, across the River Tagus from Lisbon, Prime Minister Luis Montenegro ...
2021 Portuguese presidential election. Presidential elections were held in Portugal on 24 January. [1] The incumbent President, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, was reelected for a second term. The elections were held during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Portugal was under a lockdown as of election day. [2] President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was reelected ...
Portugal's central bank is the Banco de Portugal, an integral part of the European System of Central Banks. Most industries, businesses and financial institutions are concentrated in the Lisbon and Porto metropolitan areas – the Setúbal , Aveiro , Braga , Coimbra , Leiria and Faro districts are the biggest economic centres outside these two ...
By Andrei Khalip. LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese voters have given a razor-edge victory to the centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) and a huge boost to the third-placed, far-right Chega, whose ...
The Carnation Revolution ( Portuguese: Revolução dos Cravos ), also known as the 25 April (Portuguese: 25 de Abril ), was a military coup by military officers that overthrew the authoritarian Estado Novo government on 25 April 1974 in Lisbon, [2] producing major social, economic, territorial, demographic, and political changes in Portugal and ...
Portuguese is spoken by approximately 200 million people in South America, 30 million in Africa, 15 million in Europe, 5 million in North America and 0.33 million in Asia and Oceania. It is the native language of the vast majority of the people in Portugal, [41] Brazil [42] and São Tomé and Príncipe (95%). [43]
The economy of Portugal is ranked 34th in the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report for 2019. The great majority of the international trade is done within the European Union (EU), whose countries received 71.4% of the Portuguese exports and were the origin of 74.6% of the Portuguese imports in 2020.