Portuguese PM: Time to deliver a fair, green, digital recovery
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Portugal’s Prime Minister Antonio Costa speaks to media outside European Commission building after a meeting with the European Commission President ahead of a two-days face-to-face European Council summit, in Brussels, Belgium, 15 October 2020. [EPA-EFE/OLIVIER HOSLET]
Parliament to light up By TPN/Lusa, in News · 30-12-2020 10:00:00 · 0 Comments
The Portuguese Parliament will mark the beginning of the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union (EU), at 00:00 on 1 January 2021, and will light up the main façade with the colours of the Union, blue and yellow.
A parliamentary source told Lusa that the flagpoles of the 27 EU member states would also be placed in front of the Palácio de São Bento and would remain there until 12 January.
Portugal will take over the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2021, succeeding Germany.
15 Dec 2020 - 13:18
Doha: Ambassador of Portugal to the State of Qatar H E Antonio Alves de Carvalho has said that Qatar and Portugal enjoy close ties and relations, and the two countries are engaged in reinforcing political and economic bilateral cooperation.
He added, in a statement to Qatar News Agency on the occasion of Qatar’s National Day, that Portugal and Qatar established diplomatic relations in 1982 and opened their respective embassies in 2011 and 2012, and since then, the two countries have been building gradually a solid juridical bilateral framework in the fields of economy, investments, trade, taxes, as well as in energy, tourism, sports, science, education and culture.