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President Eddie Fenech Adami leaves for Portugal today to inaugurate the Corinthia Alfa Hotel in Lisbon.
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BRUSSELS, Jul 5 (IPS) - Portugal, the new holder of the European  Union's rotating presidency, has promised that Africa will  be one of its key priorities for the next six months.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 20 (IPS) - European Union officials watched with interest, and  some with dismay, as U.S. President George W. Bush was  inaugurated for a second four-year term at a lavish ceremony  Thursday (Jan. 20).
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LISBON -- The European Union invited Brazil yesterday to join a small group of strategic partners in what the Brazilian president, Luiz In&#xE1;cio Lula da Silva, said would revive a historic relationship.
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JosÃ© Manuel DurÃ£o Barroso, the incoming president of the European Commission, is expecting to have to make a clutch of changes to the line-up of his executive if he is to get it past a rebellious European Parliament.
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BUCHAREST, Romania - Romanians Sunday chose a president Sunday, picking between a former ship&#39;s captain with a populist message and a political veteran embodying the communist past, with both promising to lead the east European country out of poverty and
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A grade school dropout and ex-factory worker, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva vividly recalls his struggle to survive in Brazil's backwoods and urban squalor. Now, Silva hopes to lead a global crusade to help the world's needy.
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Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio said Tuesday he intends to dissolve parliament and call for early elections.
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Portugal&#39;s president met party leaders today to discuss snap elections seen as likely to replace the months-old coalition government.
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Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio has announced he is dissolving parliament and calling snap elections for 20 February next. Prime minister Pedro Santana Lopes&#39;s and the ruling Social Democrat party are well behind the opposition Socialists.
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Portuguese ex-Environment Minister Jose Socrates is chosen as leader of the main opposition Socialist party.
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Unexpected successes in curbing inflation and restoring public finances have given a strong political boost to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who seeks reelection on Sunday.
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Portugal is to invite Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to an EU summit, while hoping he will decline.
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LISBON, Dec 1 (IPS) - By deciding not to comment on the political crisis   that has broken out in Portugal, the president of the European  Commission,  JosÃ© Manuel Durao Barroso, chose to elude the  responsibility he assumed in  July when he named Pedro Santana  Lopes as his successor at the head of the  Portuguese government.
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Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates said on Sunday he would ask parliament to vote to lift a ban on abortion despite a referendum on the issue looking likely to fail due to low voter turnout.
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"Basically Poland got what it wanted"  European Union leaders endorsed a reform treaty Friday to replace their failed European constitution and give the 27-nation union a more influential say in world affairs, diplomats said.The new treaty will take effect in 2009 if it passes national parliamentary votes and referendums.'With this new treaty, Europe has overcome an impasse that lasted for several years,' said Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates, who hosted the EU summit.'Europe has emerged stronger from this summit, stronger to face global issues, stronger to take its role in the world and also to increase confidence in our economy and in our citizens,' he told reporters. Read more
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Europe has emerged from its two-year institutional crisis by endorsing a new reform treaty, Portuguese prime minister Jose Socrates said Friday.