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     <title>Portugal could go bankrupt - Ilídio Pinho</title>
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A leading Portuguese businessmen Ilídio da Costa Leite de Pinho, 71, chairman of IP-Holding and Fomentinvest warns that the government is on “a road to ruin” and Portugal could end up doing little more than “producing domestic servants for export”. He said the solution was to get the state out of the real economy, restrict government meddling and reduce central government to its basic concerns of matters of sovereignty. He said: “the country lacks a strategy, properly defined targets and deadlines and without these faces a sombre future”. The businessmen.........(more) Read Article>>]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:22:51 -0000</pubDate>
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     <title>Cahora Bassa 15% stake to be sold</title>
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Casting around for sources of additional income to help reduce an excessive central government deficit Lisbon plans to sell its remaining 15% stake in Cahora Bassa dam in the former African colony of Mozambique – and worth some €200 million. A March 2 report says government is interested in selling its stake to Portuguese firms such as EDP (listed power utility), REN (state, electricity grid) or Visabeira (conglomerate - telecommunications, construction, industry, tourism, real estate) with a view to retaining some Portuguese interests in the biggest dam in sub-Saharan Africa.........(more) Read Article>>]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:25:03 -0000</pubDate>
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     <title>Spain is the deficit problem, not Greece</title>
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Basílio Adolfo Mendonça Horta da França, chairman of Agência para o Investimento e Comércio Externo de Portugal (AICEP), the Portuguese trade and investment agency says: “we hear a lot about Greece and its problems but in my opinion the situation in Spain is far more serious”. Addressing the Portuguese Engineering Council March 2 on the economic crisis across southern Europe, he noted that between January and December 2009 Portugal lost some €3.5 billion in trade receipts with Spain......(more) Read Article>>]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:26:29 -0000</pubDate>
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     <title>MPs push for inquiry into Socrates</title>
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MPs have taken the first steps to setting up a formal parliamentary committee of inquiry into the political actions of PS-Socialist PM Jose Socrates. Before it can begin deputies have to decide whether the inquiry will accept evidence from the PM in writing or demand that he testify in person and face interrogation by committee MPs. This will be the first time in the history of the democracy restored in Portugal 36 years ago, that .......(more)  Read Article>>]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:28:58 -0000</pubDate>
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     <title>Voter disenchantment at new lows</title>
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Voter satisfaction with democracy in Portugal has plumbed new depths according to recent research by two sociologists André Freire and José Manuel Leite Viegas, of Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia do ISCTE, the centre for sociological research and study at the ISCTE......... (more)  Read Article>>]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:29:38 -0000</pubDate>
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     <title>Gulbenkian ranked 8th in world research</title>
     <description><![CDATA[Technology:  
Over the past two years, government’s Foundation for Science and Technology has made a concerted effort to attract post doctoral talent in an effort to improve Portugal’s scientific competitiveness with the rest of Europe. The foundation has, with promises of state-of-the-art research facilities and public funding of some 1,000 post doctoral fellowships a year,....(more)  Read Article>>]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:31:41 -0000</pubDate>
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     <title>Ogma earnings rose 120% in 2009</title>
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Ogma - Indústria Aeronáutica de Portugal (Brazil, engineering) says net earnings for 2009 rose 120% to €12.2 million despite the aircraft industry crisis. But the Alverca plant on the outskirts of Lisbon warns that medium range maintenance contract orders have fallen sharply and could worsen.......(more) Read Article>>]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:32:16 -0000</pubDate>
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     <title>Freitas do Amaral - political crisis ahead</title>
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Diogo Freitas do Amaral, a former foreign minister in the earlier government led by PM José Sócrates, writes in Visão magazine March 2: “Portugal is heading for a political crisis”. The former founder and leader of the rightwing Christian Democratic-CDS party said: “everyone knows this only the socialist party refuses to admit it. “Apart from the economic crisis we now face, the country is on the brink of a political storm,” he said. .....(more).......Read Article>>]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:33:31 -0000</pubDate>
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