Tag: Portugal

• Saturday, July 4th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Portuguese tourism industry furious with England over the quarantine measures

  

  Portugal's tourism sector reacted with fury and disbelief at Britain's decision to maintain a quarantine regime for travelers coming from Portugal despite having a higher number of coronavirus cases and deaths.

• Thursday, June 11th 2020 - 13:28 UTC

  Spain eyeing chair of the Eurozone of finance ministers and WTO leadership

  

  The Spanish government started lobbying on Wednesday for Economy Minister Nadia Calvino to take the presidency of the Euro-group, with a minister saying “it would be good news” if she were to replace Mario Centeno, who is stepping down.

• Monday, May 4th 2020 - 08:13 UTC

  Argentina arrested on Sunday a Portuguese trawler poaching in its EEZ

  

  The Argentine Coast Guard arrested on Sunday a Portuguese trawler poaching in the country's EEZ, and will in the next few hours be escorted to the port of Bahía Blanca where it will face charges.

• Monday, April 13th 2020 - 07:19 UTC

  Portuguese president praises Porto nurse Luis who cared for Boris Johnson

  

  Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on Sunday expressed his thanks to a Portuguese nurse who had tended to coronavirus-stricken British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in intensive care, according to a statement by the presidency.

• Monday, January 20th 2020 - 15:59 UTC

  Interview: “Pepe” Gómez, the Uruguayan big wave surfer who rubs shoulders with surfing legends

  

  The surfer “Pepe” Gomez slid this week what may be the biggest wave ever surfed by an Uruguayan. He did it in Nazaré, Portugal, where a submarine valley creates the necessary conditions to break a worldwide known wave that reach up to 35 meters high.

• Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Portugal's incumbent Prime Minister and stability policies win election

  

  Portugal's incumbent Prime Minister Antonio Costa's Socialists won a general election on Sunday after presiding over a period of solid economic growth following years of austerity, near total results showed. The Socialist Party (PS) took 37% of the vote, followed by the centre-right Social Democrats (PSD) with 28%, with 98% of constituencies counted, according to the interior ministry.

• Tuesday, September 3rd 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Argentine opposition candidate Fernandez visiting Spain and Portugal

  

  The leader of the Argentine opposition and favorite to become the next president in October's election is currently spending time in Spain and Portugal where he has an academic, political and rest and recover agenda, which begins this Tuesday at the Camilo Cela José University with a conference on politics and voters, “a perspective from the electoral campaigns”.

• Thursday, June 27th 2019 - 08:35 UTC

  
Spanish and Portuguese vessels overfishing sharks in the North Atlantic, claims Greenpeace

  

  Thousands of endangered sharks are killed each year in the North Atlantic due to a lack of protection against overfishing in international waters, Greenpeace said on Thursday .

• Tuesday, March 12th 2019 - 09:11 UTC

  Royal Marine rows across the Atlantic, Portugal to Cayenne, in sixty days

  

  A Royal Marine who lost a leg in an accident has completed the fastest unsupported solo row across the Atlantic, sending a powerful message that no person should be defined by their disability. Lee Spencer, 49, finished the epic voyage in 60 days, breaking the able-bodied crossing record by 36 days. In doing so he became the first physically disabled person to row from continent to continent.

• Friday, March 1st 2019 - 13:05 UTC

  Maduro moves PDVSA office to Moscow to avoid sanctions

  

  Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez announced at a press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that the central office of state oil company PDVSA in Europe, located in Lisbon, will move to Moscow to guarantee the security of the country's assets abroad, which were delivered to the Venezuelan Parliament in other countries.