Portal:Portugal/Portugal news archive

September 2006

• Acre, Brazil
  . A suspect has been arrested.
• September 5: Portuguese cyclist Sérgio Paulinho (pictured) wins the 10th stage of the Vuelta a España.
• September 5: Minister for Education Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues reaffirms that the socialist government will implement the polemic new rules in education, like the possibility of parental evaluation of teachers.
• Liga de Honra
  .

August 2006

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July 2006

• CPLP (logo pictured), Portugal reached several group and bilateral agreements with its former colonies. Lisbon
  will hold the 2008 summit.
• Bank of Portugal
  , as it now expects 1.2% growth in 2006.
• July 13: Portugal with tropical nights until Sunday says the Instituto de Metereologia. Temperatures won't drop below the 18 degrees Celsius and will keep up at a minimum of 24 in many areas. Day temperatures reached 42.5 in Amareleja with the rest of the country close-by. Health General Direction advices children, ill and older people to take the usual summer precautions during this week.
• July 11: Banking sector profits rose 30% in 2005.
• Social Security, however, the biggest Portuguese trade union confederation, the CGTP
  , refused to take part in the deal.
• GDP
  only grew 0.1 to 0.4 in the second quarter of 2006, although this weak growth is not expected to influence the 1% growth that is likely for 2006.
• July 9: Six firemen, five Chilean and one Portuguese died this afternoon while fighting a wildfire near Guarda.
• July 9: The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto will reduce its number of students by 20%.
• July 9: The Portuguese national football team arrived this morning in Lisbon.
• Portuguese national football team was defeated by Germany, finishing in the fourth place of the 2006 World Cup
  .
• Baião
  .
• July 8: The consumption of electricity in Portugal rose by 0.2% in June.
• July 8: The Portuguese athlete Naide Gomes set a new national record in long jump, after jumping 6.82 meters, in a meeting held in the German city of Bad Langensalza.
• July 7: The tomb of king Afonso I (pictured), the first king of Portugal who ruled between 1128-1185, is due to be opened at 17:00 in Coimbra, one of the objectives is to know the king's biological profile, if possible to know his real face, which is unknown, and it would also help to solve if some events were history or legend.
• third place play-off
  .
• July 4: The new project and implementation date for the Porto-Vigo TGV line will be unveiled in November says the minister of Transports, Mário Lino after a meeting with the president of the autonomous government of Galicia, Emilio Pérez Touriño, during the president's visit to Portugal.
• July 4: The mayor of Lisbon, Carmona Rodrigues, wants to improve the candidacy of the city's downtown to World Heritage Site.
• Portuguese national football team plays tomorrow with France, in the semi-finals of the 2006 FIFA World Cup
  .
• July 4: Four women and a doctor were condemned by the court of Aveiro for the practice of abortion.
• July 3: An opinion poll indicates that the majority of the Portuguese have little hope in economic recovery.
• July 3: Two Portuguese emigrants that celebrated the Portuguese victory over England in the 2006 World Cup were shot in the south of France.
• Barreiro and Lisbon
  .
• Portuguese national football team defeated England by 3-1 in the penalty shootout. Portugal advances to the semi-final of the 2006 World Cup
  .

• Freitas do Amaral was replaced by the Defense Minister Luís Amado due to alleged health problems. The new Defense Minister is Nuno Severiano Teixeira
  .
• June 30: A Portuguese ship with 30 fishermen was arrested by the Norwegian authorities being accused of fishing in Norwegian waters.
• June 30: The municipality of Porto announced that it will only subsidize the institutions that do not criticize the municipal administration. Some jurists consider the measure illegal.
• Portuguese national football team, Luís Figo, declared that the team is prepared to beat England in the quarter finals of the 2006 World Cup
  .
• first referendum
  , won by the "No".
• June 26: Demonstrators are gathered in front of the Barcelos hospital, protesting against the closure of the birth bloc.
• June 26: The Common Front of labour unions of the public sector presented a complaint in the International Labour Organization regarding violations of the collective bargaining agreements by the government.
• June 26: The government announced the creation of a credit line to aid the fishermen, worth 30 million euros.
• Portuguese national football team defeated the Netherlands by 1-0 in the second round of the 2006 World Cup
  in Germany.
• June 25: The fisherman's unions demand financial help from the government due to the increasing prices of diesel.
• June 25: The Portuguese Communist Party accused the government of reducing the budget of the municipalities with the new law of Local Finances.
• GNR
  officer.
• June 23: The Socialist Party considered the proposal made by the People's Party of ending the religious holidays a "bad joke".
• Guarda Nacional Republicana is suspected of killing three girls in Santa Comba Dão
  .
• Douro River
  .
• June 23: GM will have to return to the Portuguese state 30 million euros if the industrial unit of Azambuja closes before 2009. The crisis is due to be discussed in the European Parliament, due to concerns over "the perceptible long term strategy" by GM to transfer factories from the European Union to Russia and Southeast Asia.
• Futebol Clube do Porto, Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, assured that Lucho González and Ricardo Quaresma
  will not leave the team.
• June 20: An estimated 257,000 people are in the surgery queue of the National Health Service.
• June 19: The workers of the General Motors manufacturing plant of Zaragoza, rejected the production of the Opel Combo model if that implies the dismantlement of the Portuguese factory in Azambuja.
• June 19: A fire desroyed a cork factory in Santa Maria da Feira.
• Republican National Guard
• June 18: The Council of Ministers of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries announced that it will send a mission to East Timor in order to analyze the political situation in the country.
• Futebol Clube do Porto
  won the Portuguese Cup after beating Juventude de Viana by 7-5.
• European United Left–Nordic Green Left and member of the Portuguese Communist Party, Joaquim Miranda, died in Portalegre
  .
• June 15: The Party of European Socialists announced that it will hold its next Congress in Porto.
• GDP per capita is the eighth lowest among the 25 members of the European Union
  .
• June 14: Four Portuguese emigrants died after a fire in a community centre, in Fall River, Massachusetts.
• June 14: About 7,000 teachers demonstrated in Lisbon, demanding a new policy for the sector and the resignation of the minister Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues.
• June 12: Following a decision by the government, the birth block of the Elvas hospital is closed today. Part of the population of Elvas has been protesting for this block not to be closed.
• June 12: The minister of labour recognized that the number of job offers in Portugal is far from being satisfactory.
• June 12: The teachers of a basic school in Lumiar, Lisbon, closed the school, after the aggression of one teacher by a student.
• Portuguese national football team defeated Angola by 1-0, in its debut in the 2006 World Cup
  .
• Cavaco Silva
  awarded 26 personalities.
• June 10: The Portugal national football team makes its debut in the 2006 World Cup tomorrow, against Angola.
• GDP
  increased by 1% in the first quarter of 2006.
• June 9: Three in each four Portuguese teachers feel dissatisfaction about the government's policies for education.
• June 7: The Council of Europe reported evidence that Portugal collaborated with CIA with the clandestine abduction, detention and transfer of prisoners.
• June 7: Several wildfires are active in Portugal, mainly due to the severe heat.
• universities
  will remain unchanged this year.
• June 7: Thousands of police officers participate in a demonstration in Lisbon, demanding better working conditions.
• June 4: One hundred and fifty firefighters are deployed near Águeda, fighting a major wildfire.
• June 4: The Portugal national football team was received in Germany, where it will participate in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, by thousands of Portuguese immigrants.
• June 4: Portuguese troops are cheerfully received in Baucau, East Timor.
• June 3: 8,000 farmers from all the country gathered in Lisbon, in protest against the government agricultural policies.

May 2006

• Portuguese national football team defeated Cape Verde
  by 4-1.
• firefighters
  .
• May 27: The teacher's unions stated their opposition to the government's proposal of teacher's evaluation by the students' parents.
• May 26: Portuguese troops arrive next Wednesday in Timor-Leste.
• SL Benfica
  for the next season.
• Luandino Vieira
  , the third African to receive the prize.
• player Deco wins the UEFA Champions League for the second time in his career, this time with FC Barcelona
  .
• Vitória Futebol Clube
  by 1-0.
• 13 May
  celebrations.
• Wave farm is being implemented in the coast of Póvoa de Varzim, it will start generating electricity for consumers in August. It will have 10 to 20% more efficiency than wind farms
  .
• Bank of Portugal has changed its outlook on Portugal's GDP for 2006
  growth from 0.8 to 1%
• Timor Leste
  , following para-military unrest.
• May 10: Minister of Health admits he will be closing the birth block of Lamego until June 30.
• Sporting Lisbon play today for the second place, which grants direct access to the Champions League
  .
• May 7: The Portuguese Minister of Health stated that, despite the protests, several maternity hospitals will be closed.
• May 3: The milk producers of mainland Portugal have exceeded the production quotas imposed by the European Union.
• music charts, replacing Melanie C
  .
• social security
  system in the current year.
• May 1: 30.000 workers participated in the celebrations of Labour Day, organized by the General Confederation of the Portuguese Workers, in Lisbon.
• May 1: A bull run in Samora Correia killed a man and injured several other persons.

April 2006

• Apr 27: The minister Mário Lino announced a change of opinion about the TGV connection between Porto and Vigo.
• Apr 27: A fire in a factory in Tomar severely injured two workers.
• Apr 25: The 32nd anniversary of the Carnation Revolution was celebrated in the Parliament, the President's speech was marked by concerns about social welfare and political transparency.
• FC Penafiel
  by 1-0.
• Cavaco Silva
  .
• Apr 21: The Ecologist Party "The Greens" criticized the Prime Minister José Sócrates for his appeal to a debate over the use of nuclear energy in Portugal.
• Portuguese newspaper Diário Económico says that the Sócrates administration is to strengthen the Polícia Judiciária
  (Judiciary Police) budget with €8.9 million, a result of payments of the so-called "justice taxes", judiciary costs and profits from public notaries.
• Portuguese SuperLiga
  .
• Apr 6: The Portuguese immigration services arrested 4 people accused of aiding illegal immigration.
• SL Benfica in the quarter-finals of the Champions League
  by an aggregate of 2-0.
• Apr 5: The Prime-Minister José Sócrates is in Luanda to meet the Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos.
• Apr 4: The Portuguese Phonographic Associations started the first 28 judicial processes against illegal downloaders of music files.

March 2006

• Cultural Centre of Belém
  .
• emigrants
  that received an order of expulsion from Canada.
• Mar 31: The Public Ministry asked for the ultimate penalty (26 years) for Brazilian Marcus Fernandes, accused of killing two Polícia de Segurança Pública agents and trying to kill a third one, in the neighbourhood of Cova da Moura, Amadora, in the suburbs of Lisbon
• Mar 28: In an action called by the General Confederation of the Portuguese Workers, several hundreds of young workers gathered in Lisbon to protest against the government's youth policies.
• Prime Minister José Sócrates said today that governmental measures against bureaucracy
  are directed to foment economic growth, improve the quality of life of Portuguese citizens and raise the prestige of the Public Administration.
• pharmaceutical laboratories
  are not transparent.
• gunrunning
  net.
• Mar 23: After postponing the change of the abortion law during the last year, the Socialist Party announced now that will struggle for its decriminalization.
• penalty shoot-out
  in the semi-finals of the Portuguese cup.
• Autonomous Region of Madeira, controlled by a Social Democratic majority, announces that, this year, the institution will skip the commemorations of the Carnation Revolution
  of April 25, 1974, considering it inopportune.
• municipal chambers of the southern region of Algarve announced that the price of water
  may experience massive raises due to the shortages during the summer.
• Mar 19: The last part of the red line of Porto Metro, between Pedras Rubras and Póvoa de Varzim was opened.
• Mar 19: The 28th Congress of the Social Democratic Party approved several changes to the party's statutes, including a new method of electing the party's president.
• wildfires
  .
• Portugal Telecom
  , Portugal's telecommunication giant.
• Mar 12: Portuguese athlete Naide Gomes achieved a bronze medal and a national record in long jump at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
• nursery schools
  and other social institutions.
• Mar 10: OECD's advanced index of January states that there's an improving tendency in the economy of Portugal, in line with other Eurozone countries.
• Mar 9: A níbal Cavaco Silva took office as the new President of Portugal.
• Mar 7: The General-Direction of Veterinary announces the obligation for domestic birds to be registered, in a measure against the possibility of a bird flu epidemic.
• Prime Minister José Sócrates
  announces that Finnish technological agencies will collaborate in the Portuguese technological plan.
• World Cup
  in Germany.
• European Constitution
  .
• Frostbitten, of Anders Banke, wins the Great Prize in the Fantasporto
  festival.
• Republican National Guard (GNR) schedulle a strike for March 14
  .
• Portuguese Armed Forces
  need "additional efforts" to modernize.
• The
  Portuguese national football team beats Saudi Arabia by 0-3 in a friendly match played in Düsseldorf
  , Germany.
• The Portuguese unemployment rate reaches 7,7% according to the Eurostat.
• Felipe, Prince of Asturias and George H. W. Bush will represent East Timor (Timor-Leste), Spain and the United States, respectively, when Aníbal Cavaco Silva is sworn as the 20th President of Portugal
  .