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  • Carlyle;s Portugal partnership
    Carlyle Group has formed a joint venture with Crimson Investment Management in Portugal It will advise on and carry out investments, and perform asset management services for Carlyle?s third European real estate fund, CEREP III, which raised ?2.2bn
  • Ronaldo vows to justify price tag
    Portugal winger Cristiano Ronaldo insists the world record Ł80m fee that Real Madrid paid Manchester United for his services is a "fair price".
  • Portugal succeeds in war against drugs (2:06)
    Portugal touts a law change as a major success in their war against drugs. Drug use and drug related deaths have fallen in the country since possession and use was decriminalised
  • Securing of Lisbon guarantees shows the value of taking risks
    Brian Cowen was right to stick his neck out at EU level, where great flexibility was shown, writes GARRET FITZGERALD . LAST WEEK I wrote about the contrast between our record of considerable success in the foreign policy area, contrasting this with our
  • Rejecting Lisbon Treaty 'not the end of the world'
    Lord Blackwell writes for ePolitix.com appealing for the government to reconsider holding a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, ahead of his Lords question on Monday. When Parliament voted through the Lisbon Treaty last year, the government rebuffed calls
  • YPF/Petrobras/GALP to explore for oil in Uruguayan waters
    A consortium made up of YPF/Repsol, Petrobras Uruguay and GALP from Portugal has won a bid to explore for oil in two offshore blocks near the coast of Uruguay, according to industry reports late Wednesday. YPF will operate a deep water block and
  • HRH Princess Chulabhorn to visit Spain, Portugal [2009-07-03]
    (NNT) - Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn will pay a royal visit to the Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic from 9 to 17 July 2009 and from 17 to 25 July 2009, respectively. During the visit to the Kingdom of Spain, HRH Princess Chulabhorn
  • HRH Princess Chulabhorn to visit Spain and Portugal [2009-07-03]
    (NNT) - Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn will pay royal visits to the Kingdom of Spain and the Republic of Portugal from 9 to 17 July 2009 During the visit to the Kingdom of Spain, Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn will be received in audience
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Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the loss of its Brazilian colony in 1822. A 1910 revolution deposed the monarchy; for most of the next six decades repressive governments ran the country. In 1974, a left-wing military coup installed broad democratic reforms. The following year Portugal granted independence to all of its African colonies. Portugal entered the EC in 1985.

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