DEVELOPMENT:  New EU Head Portugal to Focus on Africa
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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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LISBON, Jan 3  (IPS) - Cape Verde Foreign Minister VÃ­ctor Barbosa Borges  dismisses out of hand the label placed by various international  institutions on this small Atlantic archipelago, which are  calling it an example for the rest of Africa.
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In a new tourism campaign, Portugal is portraying itself as âthe West Coast of Europe,â casting off its Old World image for a New World, high-tech gloss.
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Reform-minded figures from some of Europe's smaller, nimbler economies won key posts in the European Union's executive branch, part of a drive by the incoming president to prioritize growth across the continent.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 7 (IPS) - EU development commissioner designate Louis Michel  has promised to âsell the idea of developmentâ across Europe.
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PARIS, Nov 15 (IPS) - The new African-Chinese economic and diplomatic  partnership, manifested in the pact signed by China and 48  African countries in Beijing this month, is unsettling European  leaders and analysts, who continue to see Africa as Europe's  backyard.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived  in Lisbon on Thursday to meet Portuguese leaders ahead of an  EU-Russia summit on Friday that is likely to be dominated by  disagreements on trade and energy.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 13  (IPS) - One of the first tasks of new EU development  commissioner Louis Michel will be to  persuade member states to  contribute 0.7 percent of GNI to external aid.
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The new European Commissionpresident, Jos Manuel Barroso,has stressed the role of IT in making the 25-nation European Union more economically competitive.
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Leaders gather in the Portuguese capital for the first summit between the European Union and Brazil.
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A new energy organisation for Africa tasked with coordinating policy for the resource-rich continent was set to be launched Sunday at a meeting of African Union energy ministers, organisers said.
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African leaders are to gather in Algiers to review the progress of the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD), a wide-ranging strategy for ensuring good governance and building the economies of the world's poorest continent.
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Tony Blair is expected to focus on climate change and Africa as he opens the World Economic Summit in Davos.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 27 (IPS) - +IBMThe new EU member states will soon take lessons  in development cooperation from developing countries.
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MOZAMBICANS HAVE their sights on the future as they cast votes for a new president following the retirement of Joachim Chissano. Chissano, who has been in power for 18 years, has led one of Africaâs poorest
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African music star Youssou N&#39;Dour plans to put himself forward as a candidate to head a new continental African government being discussed this weekend by African leaders in Ghana.
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Portuguese President Anibal Cavaco Silva begins a four-day visit to Spain on Monday seeking to draw attention to business opportunities that could help revive Portugal's sluggish economy.