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Portugal: Socialist government takes power with Left support
November 24, 2015Antonio Luis Santos da Costa of the Socialist Party, forms a government with the support of the Communist, Ecologist (Green) and Left Bloc deputies in the national parliament.
Read morePortuguese president re-appoints right wing minority government
October 23, 2015In Portugal there is a presidential election in January 2016, in which Cavaco Silva's actions will surely be an issue.
Read moreElections throw future of Portugal’s right wing government in doubt
October 6, 2015The question of whether Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho will stay on, and on what basis, is the subject of intense negotiations.
Read moreEurope’s new barbarians
September 2, 2015Austerity as a strategy is more than just throwing a scare into countries, it is also undermining the social contract between labor and capital that has characterized much of Europe for the past two generations.
Read moreToday in history: Mozambique achieves independence in 1975
June 25, 2015The decade 1964-74 marks the wars of independence for Portuguese colonies of Guinea-Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique, and islands of Cape Verde and São Tomé e Príncipe.
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