Paulo Sande, Visiting Professor at the Institute for Political Studies at the Portuguese Catholic University
What it does actually and what it is there for
Firstly and strictly speaking it means holding the Presidency of the Council of the European Union...
2020 was a year of big changes for the largest Portuguese building and construction company. Mota-Engil informed the market that it had signed with China Communications Construction Company (ACPC), one of the largest infrastructure groups in the world, a...
Angus Maitland, Chairman AMO Global
The job specification of the public company CEO was never easy, but in the swashbuckling days of the late 20th century it was at least straightforward: maximise the return to the owners of your company....
Bruno Mota, Founder and CEO of BOLD
The “Manifesto for Science in Portugal”, written by Professor Mariano Gago in 1990, highlights, among others, the importance of Renewing in Science Education and Creating a Scientific culture in our country.
But long before...
Miguel Pina Martins, Founder and CEO of Science4You
Educating is intrinsically bound with enabling children to know different environmental, social and relational contexts and to experience different experiences on an ongoing basis. And this is exactly where Science4you tries to...
Pedro Comissário, Permanent Representative of Mozambique in the United Nations, in New York
The world has just celebrated the turn of the year 2020. This year will figure in the annals of history as a special year. It brought huge...
André Pinotes Batista, Socialist Party Member of Parliament
The armistice of August 14, 1945, which marked the end of the Second World War, was the cornerstone for the creation of seventy-four years of relative stabilization of Western Europe. The sustained...
Vítor Sereno, Portuguese Ambassador to Senegal
At the Portuguese Embassy in Dakar - covering seven countries and one million square kilometres of coastline, the Sahelian desert and located in a stable economic region where states share a single currency -...
Pedro de Faria e Castro, Regional Undersecretary of the Presidency
2021 marks the 45th anniversary of the political and administrative autonomy of the archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.
The national political context that was experienced in 1976 finally allowed the...
It all started 22 years ago on Madison Avenue. Three of the world’s most senior financial PR professionals met to discuss a ground-breaking alliance, that would change the shape of the communications industry.
Over two days in late April 2023, The Economist spent over eight hours in conversation with Dr Kissinger. Just weeks before his 100th birthday, the former secretary of state and national security adviser laid out his concerns about the risks of great power conflict and offered solutions for how to avoid it. This is a transcript of the conversation, lightly edited for clarity.
A new geopolitical and economic order is being written through the emergence of China as an economic, military and diplomatic superpower and threatening the status of the United States. We are heading towards a multipolar world in which the search for strategic autonomy is changing the dynamics of international trade for the worse. Nothing will be more determinant to the world’s destiny over forthcoming years than the relationship between Beijing and Washington. Europe risks being a mere bystander.
Mozambique two decades ago was a very different country than it is today. The population in 2003 had just broken 19 million, today it totals 34 million, which corresponds to an increase of practically 79%, an explosion in growth in a continuing trend that undoubtedly reflects a very relevant factor to take into account as regards this country.
