Person: Anibal Cavaco Silva

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Portuguese political crisis threatens Euro recovery

A political crisis in Portugal threatens to plunge the euro back into crisis just as experts were cautiously predicting that EU economies would start growing again next year.

business

Portugal bond at reach new high

world

Debt-hit Portugal to hold election

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Portugal ‘to do all it can’ to avoid bailout

world

Bailout beckons as Portuguese PM quits

world

Portugal elects president to second term

Portuguese leader sees off socialist rival

Official figures show Portugal has elected its conservative president to a second term, delivering a harsh political setback to the minority Socialist government which is struggling to contain a financial crisis.

Sun, 23 Jan, 2011

Gay marriage for Portugal

PORTUGAL’S parliament passed a bill yesterday that would make the predominantly Catholic nation the sixth in Europe to permit gay marriage.

Sat, 09 Jan, 2010

Former PM takes oath as Portuguese head of state

Former conservative prime minister Anibal Cavaco Silva was sworn in as Portugal’s new president today, becoming the country’s first right-of-centre head of state in three decades.

Thu, 09 Mar, 2006