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	Portugal. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Portugal is bordered by Spain on the east and north and by the Atlantic Ocean on the west and south.
		Estremadura, in W Portugal, has broad, alluvial plains, rising to cool and rocky uplands; along the Atlantic coast is a celebrated resort region, reaching to the town of Estoril, near Lisbon.
		Portugal became part of the European Union’s single currency plan in 1999; in October, Guterres and the Socialists were returned to power, again as a minority government.
	www.bartleby.com /65/po/Portugal.html (3353 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet / Recursos Electorales en la Internet
		Elections to the New Zealand House of Representatives and Elections to the German Bundestag describe the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) representation system used in both countries, with results of parliamentary elections held in New Zealand from 1996 to 2005 and in Germany from 1972 to 2005.
		The results of parliamentary elections held in Portugal since 1975 (now including results of the early legislative election held on Sunday, February 20, 2005), as well as a description of the proportional representation system used to choose members of the Portuguese legislature are available in Elections to the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic.
		The results of parliamentary elections held in Denmark since 1990 (now including final results of the early parliamentary election held on Tuesday, February 8, 2005), as well as an overview of the proportional representation system used to choose members of the Danish legislature are available in Elections to the Danish Folketing.
	www.electionresources.org (1087 words)

	Portugal (07/06)
		Portugal was the first country to breach the Eurozone's Stability and Growth Pact budget deficit target of 3%, with a gap equal to 4.2% of GDP.
		Portugal was a founding member of NATO; it is an active member of the alliance by, for example, contributing proportionally large contingents in Balkans peacekeeping forces.
		Portugal was a strong advocate of independence for East Timor, a former Portuguese colony, and has committed troops and money to East Timor, in close cooperation with the United States, Asian allies, and the United Nations.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3208.htm (2688 words)

	Elections in Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Only the elections since the democratic Carnation Revolution of 1974 are listed here, however, in the period of the First Republic there were also elections, but only for the men who could read.
		Portugal elects on national level the President and the national Parliament, the Assembly of the Republic.
		In the local elections, 308 Municipal Chambers and Municipal Assemblies, and more than 4000 Parish Assemblies are elected for a four year term in separate elections that usually occur on the same day.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Portugal (264 words)

	Short briefing of the relationship between Portugal and the United Nations in recent years
		Portugal was appointed, by acclamation, on 18 May, as one of the four members of WEOG (Western European and Other states Group) that will fill the vacancies of this regional electoral group (Group I has a total of nine seats) at the Executive Board of UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
		Portugal is part of Group C (4 States that are major land-based net exporters of minerals found on the deep seabed), and has been a member of the Council since 2002.
		Portugal, represented since 1994 by ANACOM, was a member of this Council between 1974 and 1952, between 1994 and 1998, and re-elected for another term of office for the period 1999-2002.
	www.un.int /portugal/atun.html (5946 words)

	Portugal Book - Portugal History
		Portugal was governed for two years by a leftist military junta led by members of the Movimiento das Forcas Armardas, the instigators of the revolution, while civilian politicians re-emerged and crystallised around the Socialist and Communist Parties and the right-wing Partido Popular Democratico.
		Since the election, the Government has been pursuing a controversial austerity programme which aims to dispose of almost the entire state sector as part of a drive to increase competitiveness and reduce structural inefficiency.
		Portugal held the European Community presidency in 1992, and again in 1999, and is a relatively contented participant in the post-Maastricht integration process, including the introduction of European Monetary Union at the beginning of 1999.
	www.portugal-book.com /history.htm (1435 words)

	Portugal Press, Media, TV, Radio, Newspapers
		All in all, Portugal is home to enough newspaper, radio and television outlets to create a number of venues for public discussion of issues and a healthy political dialogue in a country whose 10 million citizens are represented by five political parties— Populist, Communist, Socialist, Democratic and the Left Bloc.
		Portugal's two television stations run at a huge loss, and Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio cited a $991 million deficit in July of 2002 as the basis for his approval of a law that would give the government more control over appointments to a board that oversees the State's two television stations.
		Portugal's constitution has been amended to include provisions for access to public documents as well as safeguards for a free press, and a body of legislation called The Press Law deals not only with the rights and duties of journalists but also the organization of the companies that employ them.
	www.pressreference.com /No-Sa/Portugal.html (3402 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet: Elections to the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic
		Elections to the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic
		The largest average method tends to favor the major parties, with greater intensity as the constituency size diminishes: the effective representation threshold, as a percentage of the total vote, increases as the number of seats to be allocated decreases.
		However, in the 2005 legislative elections the ruling center-right coalition was overwhelmingly defeated by the Socialist Party, which for the first time in Portuguese history obtained an absolute majority of seats in the Assembly of the Republic.
	electionresources.org /pt (859 words)

	Events
		Amaral does not see Portugal as a model because its people were twice robbed of their stated desire for democracy, and the delay in fulfilling the people's wishes proved costly.
		Exactly a year later, elections were held with the results in favor of the Socialists and the Popular Democrats, both of which promised a peaceful transition to democracy.
		While Portugal implemented nationalizations and subsequent privatizations, Spain restructured its economy for the better; while Portugal implemented and ended agricultural "reform," Spain succeeded in developing a prosperous agricultural sector; and it took Portugal thirteen years to develop a viable constitution while Spain had one at the outset of its transition.
	www.ned.org /events/deminvention/amaral.html (666 words)

	ACS non-emergency services
		Portugal and the United States are parties to the 1988 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.
		If a child is abducted from Portugal to the United States or another country party to the Convention, the left-behind parent may file an application for return at the Central Authority for Portugal.
		Legal permanent residents of Portugal and holders of valid temporary resident visas are exempted from the registration requirement.
	www.usconsulateazores.pt /ACSnonem.htm (2392 words)

	FREE In-depth report - Political Events Since 1987 - Portugal
		The parliamentary election of July 1987 was a milestone in the consolidation of Portuguese democracy in that it gave for the first time in the Second Republic a single party, the PSD, an absolute majority in the Assembly of the Republic and permitted the formation of a strong single-party government.
		Parliamentary elections were held in October 1991 when the Cavaco Silva government completed the four-year legislative term, the first government to do so in the Second Republic.
		The PSD's main opponent in the 1991 election was the PS, which polled 29.3 percent of the vote, a significant improvement over the results of 1987 and 1985.
	www.exploitz.com /Portugal-Political-Events-Since-1987-cg.php (1198 words)

	Rettenmayer Portugal - International Movers - Portugal's Guide
		Portugal is the westernmost European country, 92,000 kilometres in area, or about the size of Ireland.
		The population of mainland Portugal at 9,800,000 is identical to that of Belgium.
		Portugal’s economy is developing rapidly but nevertheless, in relation to most other EC nation’s, Portugal is still catching-up economically and culturally.
	www.portugalvirtual.pt /50travtransp/rettenmayer/porguide.html (5822 words)

	Politics of Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, the turnout of this election was a scant 31% of the population.
		Portugal's April 25, 1976 constitution reflected the country's 1974-76 move from authoritarian rule to provisional military government to a parliamentary democracy with some initial communist and left-wing influence.
		Sampaio's election marked the first time since the 1974 revolution that a single party held the prime ministership, the presidency, and a plurality of the municipalities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Portugal (1482 words)

	GENERAL ELECTIONS IN PORTUGAL 20TH FEBRUARY 2005
		The general elections that were initially planned for in March 2006 will therefore take place on 20th February.
		The latter who was forced into resignation criticised Jorge Sampaio’s decision to convene early general elections, emphasising that Portugal had witnessed sixteen governments in the last twenty-eight years.
		An abortion is only allowed in Portugal if the mother’s life is in danger or in rare cases, when it is for her physical and psychological health, as well as in cases of congenital deformity of the ftus or sexual violence.
	www.robert-schuman.org /anglais/oee/portugal/legislatives/default.htm (1046 words)

	Global Voices Online » Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Although more than ten candidates are registered, the election race is truly among only two candidates: the social democrat Manuel Rosales and incumbent President Hugo Chávez, who aspires to be reelected for 6 more years after having been in office for 8 years now.
		During the previous elections, four years ago, several political societies (political parties are banned in Bahrain) boycotted the elections under the pretext that the Bahraini Constitution was “unconstitutional”.
		Elections across the American continents are still reverberating in the Lusosphere as citizen journalists and analysts are attempting to find the meaning of and predict the future politics set in place by recent events.
	www.globalvoicesonline.org /-/topics/elections (5631 words)

	Deficits in Italy and Portugal top EU limits
		Luís Campos e Cunha, Portugal's finance minister, said in Lisbon that the government would introduce a package of spending controls that might include wage freezes for civil servants.
		In 2001, Portugal became the first euro-zone country to breach the 3 percent ceiling.
		Portugal was also likely to face disciplinary action, she said.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/05/23/business/deficit.php (610 words)

	Portugal burns - Pravda.Ru
		Portugal is burning from north to south, from east to west.
		92% of Portugal's forests are privately-owned, many of these poorly cared for and not cleaned, full of dry wood and pine needles, waiting for the spark to ignite the fire.
		For example, again in 2005, Valery Roshchupin, Director of the Federal Forestry agency (Rosleskhos) stated that the fires in Portugal and other EU countries are similar in nature to those in Russia.
	english.pravda.ru /mailbox/22/101/399/16042_Portugal.html (779 words)

	PORTUGAL: parliamentary elections Assembleia da Republica, 1999
		Elections were held for all the seats in the Assembly of the Republic on the normal expiry of the members' term of office.
		In the wake of the previous (October 1995) general elections, the Socialist Party (PS) had formed a minority government headed by Prime Minister Antonio Guterres.
		Analysts attributed this strong showing of the government to a booming economy that has benefited from Portugal's entry into the European single currency and boosted living standards; moreover, the tragedy in East Timor, Portugal's former colony, was seen as contributing to a powerful sense of unity, regarded as helping the ruling party.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/arc/2257_99.htm (343 words)

	Portuguese elections: Right wing wins thanks to the "pro-Market" policies of the Socialist Party
		The elections in Portugal on March 17 and their outcome represented a major political event in the life of the country.
		The privatisation of the main industries of the country was completed, and the process of privatisation of the health and educational systems was initiated.
		And thus, the old leaders of the party are "guilty" of misleading their own people in Portugal, and of wasting invaluable opportunities for making the revolution successful (see 1974).
	www.marxist.com /Europe/portugal_elections2002.html (1625 words)

	Doing Business in Portugal -- U.S. Commercial Service Portugal
		Mainland Portugal, along with its semi-autonomous island regions of the Azores and Madeira, offer American exporters a market of approximately 10.3 million people in a country roughly the size of the State of Indiana.
		As with all EU countries, Portugal’s borders and ports are completely open to the free flow of trade with other EU member countries.
		The unelected Prime Minister that stepped in proved to be widely unpopular, causing the President of Portugal to dissolve the government and call for elections in February of 2005, after which, a third Prime Minister in less than a year will take the reigns.
	www.buyusa.gov /portugal/en/doing_business_in_portugal.html (851 words)

	A small victory - Social Democratic Party wins Portuguese elections National Review - Find Articles
		Portugal, the most underdeveloped country in Western Europe, with the highest illiteracy rate, has been beset by grave problems ever since it spearheaded our century's march away from traditional, monarchical government.
		General Eanes, however, believed that new elections might bring about a more favorable constellation of forces for his Renewalists and so he forced a premature election.
		It is true that today Portugal's per-capita GNP is only half that of neighboring Spain, but the Portuguese are much-appreciated guest workers in Germany and France, where they enjoy the fruits of an affluent society.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n21_v39/ai_6127134 (832 words)

	MBEAW: Portugal
		"The Catholic Church and the Estado Novo of Portugal," in Obelkevich et al.
		Objects to incorporation of Portugal into a German-dominated Europe whose 400 million citizens are defined as consumers.
		On the "development of underdevelopment" and ecological dysfunction in a tiny rural Portuguese community, as self-sufficiency was swamped by market forces in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
	www.mbeaw.org /resources/countries/portugal.html (884 words)

	03-07563.h1
		Applicant was born in Portugal to resident citizens of that nation in 1943.
		Applicant traveled to Portugal on three occasions after he became a U.S. naturalized citizen: for vacation in 1986; to see his father (now deceased) who was ill in October 1996; and to visit his mother in July 2003.
		A citizen of Portugal from birth and of the U.S. since 1982, Applicant's status as a dual national is not necessarily indicative of a foreign preference (see E2.A3.1.3.1., dual citizenship based on birth in a foreign country as mitigating of foreign preference concerns).
	www.dod.mil /dodgc/doha/industrial/03-07563.h1.html (2366 words)

	Portugal - THE MEDIA
		The press might speak out indirectly, with long analyses of elections in Chile or West Germany, for example, when everyone understood the real topic was the absence of free elections in Portugal.
		By the beginning of the 1990s, no newspapers in Portugal were government owned, and the country had a completely free press.
		Few fulllength films were made in Portugal, and those that were had not found a market abroad.
	countrystudies.us /portugal/90.htm (684 words)

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