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member of the Socialist Party

  • 1 party

    party ['pɑ:tɪ] (pl parties, pt & pp partied)
    1 noun
    (a) (social event) fête f; (more formal) soirée f, réception f;
    to give a party (formal) donner une réception ou une soirée; (informal) faire une fête;
    to have or to throw a party for sb organiser une fête en l'honneur de qn;
    I'm having a little cocktail party on Friday je fais un petit cocktail vendredi;
    he's caught the party spirit il s'est abandonné aux joies de la fête;
    he's a real party person il adore faire la fête;
    New Year's Eve party réveillon m de fin d'année
    (b) Politics parti m;
    the Conservative/Democratic Party le parti conservateur/démocrate;
    he joined the Socialist Party in 1936 il est entré au parti socialiste en 1936
    (c) (group → of tourists, climbers) groupe m; (→ of miners, workers etc) brigade f, équipe f, groupe; Military détachement m;
    will you join our party? voulez-vous être des nôtres?;
    we're a small party nous sommes peu nombreux;
    I was one of the party j'étais de la partie;
    a tour party un groupe de touristes;
    the funeral party le cortège funèbre;
    the rescue party l'équipe f de secours;
    the wedding party les invités mpl (à un mariage);
    to make dinner reservations for a party of six réserver une table pour six personnes;
    a reservation for the Miller party une réservation au nom de Miller
    (d) formal or Law (participant) partie f;
    to be a party to (conversation) prendre part à; (crime) être complice de; (conspiracy, enterprise) être mêlé à, tremper dans;
    also figurative the guilty party le (la) coupable;
    figurative this broken wire is the guilty party c'est à cause de ce fil coupé;
    the injured party la partie lésée;
    Law the contracting parties les parties fpl contractantes;
    Law (the) interested parties les intéressés mpl;
    I would never be (a) party to such a thing je ne me ferais jamais complice d'une chose pareille, je ne m'associerais jamais à une chose pareille
    (e) (person) individu m
    (a) (atmosphere, clothes) de fête
    (b) Politics (leader, leadership, funds) du parti; (system) des partis
    familiar faire la fête ;
    let's party! faisons la fête!;
    we partied all night nous avons fait la fête toute la nuit;
    she's a great one for partying elle adore faire la fête
    ►► familiar party animal fêtard(e) m,f;
    she's a real party animal elle adore faire la fête, c'est une sacrée fêtarde;
    Politics Party Conference Congrès m du parti;
    party dress robe f habillée;
    party games = jeux auxquels on joue dans les soirées ou les fêtes;
    party invitations invitations fpl;
    party line Telecommunications ligne f commune (à plusieurs abonnés); Politics ligne f du parti;
    to toe or follow the party line suivre la ligne du parti;
    Politics party machine machine f du parti;
    Politics party man homme m de parti;
    Politics party member membre m du parti;
    British familiar party piece numéro m (à l'occasion d'une fête);
    ironic that's his party piece c'est son numéro habituel;
    Politics party politics politique f de parti; pejorative politique f politicienne;
    familiar party pooper rabat-joie m inv;
    party snacks amuse-gueule(s) mpl;
    party wall mur m mitoyen

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  • 2 party

    1. n партия
    2. a партийный

    party affiliation — партийность, принадлежность к партии

    3. n отряд, команда; группа, партия

    party in office — политическая партия, находящаяся у власти

    4. n компания
    5. n приём гостей; вечер, вечеринка; пикник; прогулка в компании

    to give a party — позвать гостей; устроить вечер; принимать гостей

    to make up a party — собрать гостей, устроить вечер

    party pooper — гость, который уходит первым с вечеринки

    house party — гости, приглашённые на несколько дней

    6. n сопровождающие лица, свита

    third party — третье лицо, третья сторона

    accommodation party — лицо, выписавшее дружеский вексель

    7. n участник, участвующее лицо

    the defendant was a party to the making of the codicil — обвиняемый принимал участие в составлении дополнительного распоряжения к завещанию

    third party risk — риск, которому подвергается третье лицо

    8. n разг. особа; человек
    9. n амер. студ. жарг. доступная девушка

    coming-out party — приём в честь девушки, впервые появившейся в свете;

    10. n юр. сторона

    contracting parties, the parties to a contractдоговаривающиеся стороны

    defaulting party — сторона, не выполняющая обязанностей

    party in default — сторона, не выполнившая обязанность

    guilty party — сторона, признанная виновной; виновный

    11. n амер. студ. жарг. обнимание, нежничание; вечеринка с поцелуями
    12. a геральд. разделённый сверху донизу на две равные части
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. affair (noun) affair; ball; banquet; bee; celebration; festivity; fete; fun; function; gala; occasion; social; soiree
    2. alliance (noun) alliance; attachment; body; circle; clique; coterie; league
    3. communicant (noun) communicant; member
    4. company (noun) band; company; corps; outfit; troop; troupe
    5. entertainment (noun) amusement; beguilement; carousal; diversion; entertainment; performance
    6. group (noun) assemblage; assembly; band; bevy; bunch; cluster; covey; crew; gathering; group; mob; multitude; team
    7. human (noun) being; creature; human; individual; life; man; mortal; person; personage; soul; wight
    8. litigant (noun) agent; compurgator; contractor; litigant; plotter
    9. orgy (noun) bacchanal; bacchanalia; debauch; orgy; saturnalia
    10. participant (noun) actor; partaker; participant; participator; sharer
    11. ring (noun) bloc; cartel; coalition; combination; combine; faction; ring

    English-Russian base dictionary > party

  • 3 party

    ̈ɪˈpɑ:tɪ
    1. сущ.
    1) а) сторона в сражении, споре, противоборстве, противостоянии б) юр. сторона в) политическая партия to establish, form a partyосновать, организовать партию to break up, disband, dissolve a party ≈ распустить партию the party in powerправящая партия political party ≈ политическая партия progressive party ≈ прогрессивная партия reactionary party ≈ реакционная партия centrist party conservative party labor party left-wing party liberal party majority party minority party radical party right-wing party ruling party spoiler party г) участник, юр. соучастник;
    одно из двух лиц, говорящих по телефону;
    шутл. особа, субъект, человек (своего рода местоимение) an old party with spectacles ≈ старикашка в очках be a party to smth. Syn: participator, accessory
    2) а) отряд, команда, группа, партия ( в различных значениях, в частности, воен.) ;
    воен. сл. боевая операция advance party б) свита, сопровождающие лица в) компания( группа людей) ;
    прием гостей, званый вечер, вечеринка, тусовка at a party ≈ на вечеринке to arrange, give, have, throw a party for ≈ устраивать, давать прием для, устраивать вечеринку, собирать тусовку to host a party for ≈ быть хозяином вечера, устраивать вечер для to attend a party ≈ присутствовать на вечеринке to crash a partyявиться без приглашения birthday party ≈ день рождения a party breaks up ≈ вечеринка заканчивается the party is over ≈ баста, карапузики, кончилися танцы The party broke up at midnight. ≈ Вечеринка закончилась в полночь. We had a good time at the party. ≈ Мы хорошо провели время на вечеринке. Christmas party cocktail party dinner party farewell party garden party going-away party New Year's Eve party pajamas party slumber party singles party stag party surprise party tea party Syn: celebrationparty girl
    2. прил.
    1) геральдика разделенный на какое-л. число частей каким-л. образом (о геральдическом щите)
    2) относящийся к party
    1. в одном из значений
    3) партийный, относящийся к политической партии party affiliation party card party leader - party man - party member party membership party organization party local party unit party nucleus партия - the socialist * социалистическая партия - local * местная низовая партийная организация - a ruling * правящая партия - an opposition * партия в оппозиции - to rally a * сплотить партию - to join a * вступить в партию - to belong to a * принадлежать к какой-либо партии, быть членом какой-либо партии партийный - * affiliation партийность, принадлежность к партии - * card партийный билет - * dues партийные взносы - * leader лидер (вождь) партии - * organization партийная организация - * warfare борьба партий, война между партиями отряд, команда;
    группа, партия - climbing * отряд альпинистов - surveying * изыскательская партия - rescue * спасательный отряд - searching * поисковая партия - storming * штурмовой отряд - working * рабочая группа (комиссии, конференции) - to be one of the * быть членом отряда - to form (to orhanize) a * создать( организовать) группу, отряд - our tour ended and the * disbanded наш поход закончился, и группа распалась компания - a small * маленькая компания - he had a * of friends at his home у него дома собралась компания друзей - the * did not break up until two in the morning гости разошлись только к двум часам ночи - we shall be a small * у нас будут все свои, у нас будет немного народу прием гостей;
    вечер, вечеринка;
    пикник;
    прогулка в компании - costume * карнавал - dinner * обед - fishing * рыбалка - farewell * прощальный вечер - pleasure * увеселительная прогулка - moonshine * увеселительная прогулка при луне - the * was very stiff and formal вечер прошел чопорно и официально - the luncheon * included five guests на завтраке было пятеро гостей - to go to a * пойти на вечер - to give a * позвать гостей;
    устроить вечер;
    принимать гостей - to make up a * собрать гостей, устроить вечер - to be asked to a * быть приглашенным в гости - the * ended up with a dance вечер закончился танцами сопровождающие лица, свита - the president and his * президент и сопровождающие его лица (to) участник, участвующее лицо - to be a * to smth. принимать участие в чем-либо - he was a * to all their proceedings он принимал участие во всех их делах - sixty countries are now parties to the treaty 60 стран уже подписали этот договор - the defendant was a * to the making of the codicil обвиняемый принимал участие в составлении дополнительного распоряжения к завещанию - to be a * to a crime быть соучастником преступления - to be a * to an undertaking участвовать в (каком-либо) предприятии - to be no * to smth. не принимать участия в чем-либо - I shall never be a * to any such thing я никогда не приму участия в таком деле( разговорное) особа;
    человек - a pious * набожная особа - a rich old * богатый старик - a * of the name of Jones один тип по фамилии Джоунс - he is a worthy * in a conversation он достойный собеседник (американизм) (студенческое) (жаргон) доступная девушка (юридическое) сторона - * to an action at law сторона в процессе - adverse * противная сторона (в процессе) - the injured * пострадавшая сторона - contracting * контрагент - contracting parties, the parties to a contract договаривающиеся стороны - the High Contracting Parties( дипломатическое) Высокие Договаривающиеся Стороны - the parties concerned, interested parties заинтересованные стороны - belligerent * воюющая сторона( американизм) (студенческое) (жаргон) обнимание, нежничание;
    вечеринка с поцелуями > cold-meat * (американизм) (сленг) похороны > necktie * (американизм) (сленг) линчевание( геральдика) разделенный сверху донизу на две равные части - * per pale разделенный вертикальной линией adverse ~ противная сторона aggrieved ~ потерпевшая сторона ~ шутл. человек, особа, субъект;
    an old party with spectacles старикашка в очках;
    party girl доступная девушка;
    женщина легкого поведения attaching ~ действительная сторона average ~ сторона, понесшая убытки ~ участник;
    to be a party (to smth.) участвовать, принимать участие (в чем-л.) be a ~ to принимать участие central board of ~ центральный орган партии centre ~ партия центра charter ~ договор о фрахтовании судна charter ~ чартер-партия conducted ~ попутчики conducted ~ спутники party: contestant ~ спорящая сторона contracting ~ договаривающаясч сторона contracting ~ договаривающаяся сторона contracting ~ участник договора country ~ аграрная партия damaging ~ сторона, наносящая ущерб declaring ~ заявляющая сторона defendant ~ сторона обвиняемого defendant ~ сторона ответчика direct ~ выставившая сторона ~ прием гостей;
    званый вечер, вечеринка;
    to give a party устроить вечеринку governing ~ правящая партия government ~ правительственная партия injured ~ пострадавшая сторона injured ~ сторона, понесшая ущерб insured ~ застрахованная сторона interested ~ заинтересованная сторона interim working ~ временная рабочая группа intervening ~ вмешивающаяся сторона joint ~ соучастник joint working ~ совместная рабочая группа party: left-wing ~ левая партия majority ~ партия большинства ~ сопровождающие лица;
    the minister and his party министр и сопровождающие его лица minority ~ партия меньшинства nonsocialist ~ буржуазная партия obligated ~ обязавшаяся сторона opposing ~ противная сторона opposition ~ оппозиционная партия parliamentary ~ парламентская партия ~ юр. сторона;
    the parties to a contract договаривающиеся стороны party группа ~ компания ~ отряд, команда;
    группа, партия ~ партийный;
    party affiliation партийная принадлежность;
    party card партийный билет ~ партийный ~ партия;
    the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза ~ партия ~ прием гостей;
    званый вечер, вечеринка;
    to give a party устроить вечеринку ~ сопровождающие лица;
    the minister and his party министр и сопровождающие его лица ~ юр. сторона;
    the parties to a contract договаривающиеся стороны ~ сторона, участник (договора) ;
    партия, отряд, команда, группа, компания, прием (гостей), вечеринка, пирушка, сопровождающие лица ~ сторона (по делу, в договоре и т.п.) ~ сторона ~ участник;
    to be a party (to smth.) участвовать, принимать участие (в чем-л.) ~ участник ~ шутл. человек, особа, субъект;
    an old party with spectacles старикашка в очках;
    party girl доступная девушка;
    женщина легкого поведения Party: Party: Conservative ~ Консервативная партия (Великобритания) party: party: contestant ~ спорящая сторона Party: Party: Labour ~ лейбористская партия party: party: left-wing ~ левая партия Party: Party: Social Democratic ~ Социал-демократическая партия (Великобритания) party: party: splinter ~ отколовшаяся партия ~ партийный;
    party affiliation партийная принадлежность;
    party card партийный билет ~ шутл. человек, особа, субъект;
    an old party with spectacles старикашка в очках;
    party girl доступная девушка;
    женщина легкого поведения ~ in office правящая партия ~ in power правящая партия power: ~ могущество, власть (тж. государственная) ;
    влияние, мощь;
    supreme power верховная власть;
    the party in power партия, стоящая у власти ~ local (или unit) местная, низовая партийная организация;
    party nucleus партийная ячейка ~ leader вождь, лидер партии;
    party man (или member) член партии ~ membership партийность, принадлежность к партии;
    party organization партийная организация ~ local (или unit) местная, низовая партийная организация;
    party nucleus партийная ячейка ~ to action сторона в судебном процессе ~ to bill сторона торгового контакта ~ to case сторона в судебном процессе ~ to contract договаривающаяся сторона ~ to contract контрагент ~ to joint transaction сторона в совместной сделке right-wing ~ пол. правая партия rival ~ соперничающая партия single-tax ~ сторона, выступающая за единый налог party: splinter ~ отколовшаяся партия submitting ~ сторона-заявитель succeeding ~ наследник tendering ~ сторона, подавшая заявку на торгах third ~ третье лицо third ~ третья сторона working ~ рабочая группа

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > party

  • 4 Sócrates, José

    (Carvalho Pinto de Sousa)
    (1957-)
       Politician, head of the Socialist Party, and prime minister of Portugal. Born in Oporto, Sôcrates lived his early years in Covilha, central Portugal. Trained as a civil engineer, Sôcrates' professional credentials became the subject of a heated political controversy after he became an important politician. The validity of his engineering degree, as well as the academic respectability of the private university at which he had received the disputed credential, were brought into question in the media.
       Sôcrates helped found the youth wing of the Social Democratic Party and, since 1981, has been a member of the Socialist Party.
       His specialty has been environmental affairs, and in the first government of Antônio Guterres, he served as undersecretary of state for the environment. He later became Minister for Youth and Sport in the second Guterres government in 1999. One of his main causes has been to ban smoking in public buildings and public transport and, in January 2008, a law was passed to this effect. (Sôcrates became the target of criticism when it was discovered that he had smoked on a flight from Portugal to Venezuela.) He again became Minister for Youth and Sports and helped organize the 2004 EURO cup ( futebol) in Portugal. He won the post of secretary-general of the Socialist Party in 2004 with a strong vote, and he became prime minister of the XVII constitutional government in March 2005. He was also president-in-office of the European Union during the second half of 2007.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Sócrates, José

  • 5 fila

    f.
    1 line (hilera).
    en fila, en fila india in line, in single file
    aparcar en doble fila to double-park
    ponerse en fila to line up
    2 row, bank, file, line.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: filar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: filar.
    * * *
    1 (línea) file, line
    1 (de ejército, partido) ranks
    \
    cerrar filas MILITAR to close ranks
    en fila de uno, en fila india in single file
    en primera fila in the front row
    estar en filas MILITAR to be doing one's military service
    llamar a alguien a filas MILITAR to call somebody up
    poner en fila to line up
    ¡rompan filas! MILITAR fall out!, dismiss!
    salirse de la fila to step out of line
    * * *
    noun f.
    1) file, line
    3) rank, row
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=hilera) [de personas, cosas]
    a) [una tras de otra] line

    nos colocaron en fila — they lined us up, they put us in a row

    ponerse en fila — to line up, get into line

    b) [una al lado de otra]
    c) (Mil)

    ¡en fila! — fall in!

    formar filas — to form up, fall in

    romper filas — to fall out, break ranks

    ¡rompan filas! — fall out!, dismiss!

    fila india, en fila india — in single file

    2) [de asientos] row

    en primera/segunda fila — in the front/second row

    3) pl filas
    a) (Mil) (=servicio)

    llamar a algn a filas — to call sb up, draft sb (EEUU)

    b) (Pol) ranks
    4) * (=antipatía)
    5) CAm (=cumbre) peak, summit
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( hilera) line

    rompan filas! — (Mil) fall out!

    b) (en teatro, aula) row

    de primera/segunda fila — first-/second-rate

    estar en primera fila — ( en teatro) to be in the front row; ( figurar) to be in the limelight

    2) filas femenino plural
    a) (Mil) ranks (pl)

    cerrar or estrechar filas — to close ranks

    b) (Pol) ranks (pl)
    * * *
    = row.
    Ex. The loan period is given at the intersections of the rows and columns.
    ----
    * asiento de primera fila = ringside seat, ringside ticket.
    * butaca de primera fila = ringside seat, ringside ticket.
    * cerrar filas = close + ranks.
    * codificación de doble fila = double row coding.
    * codificación directa de fila sencilla = single row direct coding.
    * estrechar filas = close + ranks.
    * formar fila = line up.
    * llamamiento a filas = draft, the, military draft.
    * llamar a filas = draft.
    * ponerse en fila = line up.
    * romper filas = break + ranks.
    * traer a Alguien a filas = whip + Nombre + into shape.
    * visión de primera fila = ringside seat, ringside view.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( hilera) line

    rompan filas! — (Mil) fall out!

    b) (en teatro, aula) row

    de primera/segunda fila — first-/second-rate

    estar en primera fila — ( en teatro) to be in the front row; ( figurar) to be in the limelight

    2) filas femenino plural
    a) (Mil) ranks (pl)

    cerrar or estrechar filas — to close ranks

    b) (Pol) ranks (pl)
    * * *
    = row.

    Ex: The loan period is given at the intersections of the rows and columns.

    * asiento de primera fila = ringside seat, ringside ticket.
    * butaca de primera fila = ringside seat, ringside ticket.
    * cerrar filas = close + ranks.
    * codificación de doble fila = double row coding.
    * codificación directa de fila sencilla = single row direct coding.
    * estrechar filas = close + ranks.
    * formar fila = line up.
    * llamamiento a filas = draft, the, military draft.
    * llamar a filas = draft.
    * ponerse en fila = line up.
    * romper filas = break + ranks.
    * traer a Alguien a filas = whip + Nombre + into shape.
    * visión de primera fila = ringside seat, ringside view.

    * * *
    A
    1 (hilera) line
    formen fila aquí para comprar las entradas form a line o ( BrE) a queue here to buy your tickets
    formen filas de (a) cinco line up in fives
    ponerse en fila to get into line
    en fila india in single file
    caminaban en fila de (a) dos they were walking in pairs o two abreast
    estacionó en doble fila he double-parked
    ¡rompan filas! ( Mil) fall out!
    2 (en un teatro, aula) row
    de primera fila first-rate
    de segunda fila second-rate
    estar en primera fila (en el teatro) to be in the front row; (figurar) to be in the limelight
    1 ( Mil) ranks (pl)
    incorporarse a filas or ( Chi) reconocer filas to join up
    lo llamaron a filas he was drafted o ( BrE) called up
    cerraron filas en torno a su líder they closed ranks around their leader
    2 ( Pol) ranks (pl)
    milita en las filas socialistas she is active in (the ranks of) the socialist party
    * * *

     

    Del verbo filar: ( conjugate filar)

    fila es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    fila sustantivo femenino
    a) ( hilera) line;

    formen fila aquí line up o form a line here;

    en fila india in single file;
    estacionado en doble fila double-parked
    b) (en teatro, aula) row

    c)

    filas sustantivo femenino plural (Mil) ranks (pl);

    incorporarse a filas to join up;
    lo llamaron a filas he was drafted
    fila
    I sustantivo femenino
    1 file, row: marchaban en fila india, they were walking in single file
    nos pusimos a la fila, we joined the queue
    puso las muñecas en fila, she lined the dolls up
    2 (de butacas) row
    II fpl filas 1 Mil ranks: no le llamaron a filas, they didn't call him up
    2 (de un partido político) rank and file
    ' fila' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    alinearse
    - cola
    - india
    - indio
    - línea
    - ponerse
    - primera
    - primero
    - última
    - último
    - alineación
    - alinear
    - aparcar
    - cinco
    - corrida
    - estacionar
    - hilera
    - interminable
    - ubicar
    English:
    file
    - line
    - line up
    - rank
    - row
    - thrust aside
    - tier
    - front
    - single
    - string
    * * *
    fila nf
    1. [hilera] line;
    en fila, en fila india in line, in single file;
    marchaban en fila de a dos they were marching two abreast;
    ponerse en fila to line up;
    estacionar en doble fila to double-park
    2. [de asientos] row
    3. [de letras, números] row
    4. Mil
    filas ranks;
    en filas doing military service;
    entrar en filas to start one's military service;
    llamar a filas a alguien to call sb up;
    romper filas to fall out;
    ¡rompan filas! fall out!;
    cerrar filas (en torno a alguien) to close ranks (around sb)
    5.
    filas [de partido] ranks;
    militaba en las filas socialistas she was an active member of the socialist party;
    milita en las filas del Águilas he plays for Águilas
    * * *
    f
    1 line, Br
    queue;
    en fila india in single file
    2 de asientos row;
    de primera/segunda fila first-/second-rate;
    en primera fila fig: flores, fotos, medallas prominently displayed;
    siempre tiene que estar en primera fila he always has to be the center o Br centre of attention
    3
    :
    filas pl MIL ranks;
    cerrar filas fig close ranks;
    romper filas break ranks;
    llamar a alguien a filas draft s.o., Br call s.o. up
    * * *
    fila nf
    1) hilera: line, file
    ponerse en fila: to get in line
    2) : rank, row
    3) filas nfpl
    : ranks
    cerrar filas: to close ranks
    * * *
    fila n
    1. (hilera) line / file
    2. (cola) queue

    Spanish-English dictionary > fila

  • 6 Kouchner, Bernard

       born 1939. Doctor, politician. Kouchner was co-founder of the international medical charity Médecins sans Frontières (q.v.). As a politician, he was a leading member of the Socialist Party, and held ministerial portfolios, as Minister of health, under four Socialist prime ministers. However, disappointed by the failure of the Socialist Party to modernise, he was one of the leading Socialists to accept an invitation to join the "open" conservative government of François Fillon, following the election of President Sarkozy. He remained France's foreign secretary until 2010, when he was replaced by Michèle Aliot Marie.

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  • 7 член

    м.
    1. (в разн. знач.) member; (конечность тж.) limb; (учёного общества, учреждения тж.) fellow; мат. тж. term

    быть членом комитета и т. п. — be on the committee, etc.

    член уравнения мат. — member / term of an equation

    член пропорции мат.term of a proportion; proportional

    2. грам. article

    Русско-английский словарь Смирнитского > член

  • 8 Pereira, Manuel Pedro da Silva

    (1963-)
       Attorney, politician, and civil servant. Silva Pereira holds a law degree from the University of Lisbon's Faculty of Law (1985) as well as a master's in law (1993) from the same institution. He has been on the faculty of that law school, as well as at the Autonomous University of Lisbon. He has served in various government posts since 1988 and, since 2000, has been a member of the Socialist Party (PS). He has been an elected member of the Assembly of the Republic since 2002, and worked on the independent television channel as editor. The author of various articles and theses, he was minister of the presidency, in the cabinet, in the 1999-2003 government and, since March 2005, has again been Minister of the Presidency, under Premier José Sócrates.

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  • 9 Rosa, Humberto Delgado

    (1960-)
       Biologist, environmental activist, and public servant. Born in Lisbon in 1960, a grandson of the exiled General Humberto Delgado, Rosa received a biology degree from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon in 1983 and a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology from the same institution in 1995. He served as a faculty member in the animal biology department of his alma mater, as well as a researcher. He also served as advisor on the environment to several prime ministers beginning in 1995. In February 2005, Rosa was elected to the Assembly of the Republic as a member of the Socialist Party, and he was named Secretary of State for the Environment the same year.
       In his term as one of his country's principal civil servants and academic authorities concerned with ecology and the environment, Rosa has confronted important issues and problems in his area of expertise including recycling, incineration, climate change questions, and air quality. He is an important advocate and leader in renewable energy activities, and has supported greater emphasis on wind energy in Portugal. An active public speaker, Rosa has been a prolific researcher and author of works on biodiversity, bioethics, biotechnology, and the environment. He edited a book on bioethics for the natural sciences in 2004, in addition to publishing scores of articles in periodicals and chapters in books on these topics. He has also been a leader in various organizations concerned with the ecology and biology in the European Union as well as in Portugal.

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  • 10 membro sm

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > membro sm

  • 11 membro

    Nuovo dizionario Italiano-Inglese > membro

  • 12 Teixeira, Nuno Severiano

    (1957-)
       Portuguese scholar and politician, example of a new generation of academically trained public servants who favor a pan-European vision. Born in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, in 1957, he received most of his education in Europe. Educated as a career academic, he received a master's degree in history from the Faculty of Letters, Classical University of Lisbon in 1981, and his doctorate in the history of international relations from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy in 1994. He also received a higher degree in 2005 in political science and international relations from the New University of Lisbon. He held various teaching and research posts in academia in Italy, the United States, and Portugal, as well as visiting professor post appointments at American universities, including Georgetown University and the University of California, Berkeley, between 2000 and 2003. He was active in international research networks and scholarly conferences and publications, including the American-based International Conference Group on Portugal (1972-2002).
       A member of the Socialist Party, Teixeira was director of the Instituto da Defesa Nacional, a government academy and think-tank, from 1996 to 2000 and, from 2000 to 2002, he served as minister of internal administration. From 2003 to 2006, he was the director of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations, at the New University of Lisbon. In July 2006, he became Portugal's minister of national defense in the government of Prime Minister José Sócrates. His scholarly publications are numerous, including books on modern history, the European Union, and defense and war studies. As defense minister, Teixeira was active in the pan-European activities of the European Union (EU) and made important contributions as a speaker and theorist. In EU meetings, he analyzed strategic defense planning in order to help determine the future military roles of the EU as it dealt with transnational terrorism, failed states, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

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  • 13 Delanoë, Bertrand

       Mayor of Paris since 2001. Reelected in 2008. Delanoë is a popular member of the Socialist party

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  • 14 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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    parti1 [paʀti]
    1. masculine noun
       a. ( = groupe) party
       b. ( = solution) option
    prendre parti pour qn ( = donner raison à qn) to stand up for sb
       c. ( = personne à marier) match
    beau or bon or riche parti good match
    parti pris ( = préjugé) prejudice
    parti pris artistique/esthétique ( = choix) artistic/aesthetic choice
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    partie paʀti (colloq) adjectif ( ivre)

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    1) ( groupe de personnes) group; Politique party
    2) ( solution) option

    prendre parti pour/contre quelque chose — to be for/against something

    3) (dated) ( personne à marier) suitable match
    Phrasal Verbs:
    ••

    tirer parti deto take advantage of [situation]; to turn [something] to good account [leçon, invention]

    * * *
    paʀti nm
    1) POLITIQUE party
    2) (= décision)

    prendre le parti de faire — to make up one's mind to do, to resolve to do

    prendre parti pour — to take sides for, to take a stand for

    prendre parti pour — to take sides against, to take a stand against

    prendre le parti de qn — to stand up for sb, to side with sb

    3) (= personne à marier) match
    4)

    tirer parti de — to take advantage of, to turn to good account

    * * *
    A adj ( ivre) être parti to be tight; être un peu parti to be tipsy; être complètement parti to be plastered.
    B nm
    1 ( groupe de personnes) group; le parti des mécontents the dissatisfied;
    2 Pol party; les partis de l'opposition the opposition parties; avoir la carte d'un parti to be a card-carrying member of a party; le système du parti unique the one-party system;
    3 ( solution) option; hésiter entre deux partis to hesitate between two options; prendre parti to commit oneself (sur qch on sth); prendre parti pour qn to take sb's side; prendre parti contre qn to be against sb; prendre parti pour/contre qch to be for/against sth; prendre le parti de qn to side with sb (contre qn against sb); prendre le parti de qch to opt for sth; prendre le parti de faire to decide to do; il a pris le parti de ne rien dire he decided not to say anything; ne pas savoir quel parti prendre not to know what to do for the best;
    4 ( personne à marier) suitable match; être un beau or bon parti [homme] to be an eligible bachelor; [homme, femme] to be a catch.
    C partie nf
    1 ( élément d'un tout) gén part; (d'une somme, d'un salaire) proportion, part; une partie de la population/des électeurs a proportion ou section of the population/of the voters; une partie des bénéfices/salaires a proportion of the profits/wages; les parties du corps the parts of the body; la première/deuxième partie de the first/second part of [livre, film, spectacle]; un feuilleton en six parties a television serial in six parts; une bonne or grande partie de a good ou large number of [personnes, objets, éléments]; a high proportion of [masse, ensemble, ressources]; la majeure partie des gens most people; la majeure partie de la population/des cas the majority of the population/of cases; en partie partly, in part; en grande partie to a large ou great extent; pour partie liter partly, in part; tout ou partie de all or part of; se faire rembourser tout ou partie des frais to have all or some of one's expenses paid; faire partie de to be part of [groupe, processus, idéologie, pays]; il fait partie de la famille he's one of the family; faire partie des premiers/derniers to be among the first/last; cela fait partie de leurs avantages that's one of their advantages; faire partie du passé to belong to the past; être or faire partie intégrante de qch to be an integral part of sth;
    2 ( division de l'espace) part; dans cette partie du monde/de l'Afrique in this part of the world/of Africa; la partie est/ouest de Jérusalem the eastern/western part of Jerusalem;
    3 ( division temporelle) part; il a plu une partie de la journée/nuit it rained for part of the day/night; ça m'a occupé une bonne partie de la matinée it took me a good part of the morning; il leur consacre une partie de son temps libre he devotes some of his free time to them; elle passe la majeure partie de son temps au travail/à dormir she spends most of her time at work/sleeping;
    4 ( profession) line (of work); dans ma partie in my line (of work); il est de la partie it's in his line (of work); je ne suis pas du tout de la partie that's not at all in my line;
    5Les jeux et les sports Jeux, Sport game; une partie de poker/de billard/d'échecs a game of poker/of billiards/of chess; une partie de tennis a game of tennis; une partie de cache-cache a game of hide-and-seek; une partie de golf a round of golf; faire or jouer une partie to have a game; la partie qui se joue entre les deux pays est difficile fig the ongoing situation between the two countries is tense; gagner/perdre une partie Jeux, Sport to win/lose a game; gagner/perdre la partie fig to win/lose the day; abandonner la partie Jeux, Sport to abandon the game; fig to give up (the fight); avoir la partie belle or facile fig to have an easy time of it; être de la partie fig to be in on it; je fête mes trente ans, j'espère que tu seras de la partie I'm having a thirtieth birthday party, I hope you can come; nous ne pouvons pas venir à votre fête mais ce n'est que partie remise we can't make it to your party but maybe next time;
    6 (dans une négociation, un contrat) party; les parties en présence/conflit the parties (involved)/the opposing parties; les parties contractantes/concernées the contracting/interested parties; les deux parties ont signé un accord the two parties signed an agreement; les parties belligérantes the warring parties ou factions; être partie prenante dans qch to be actively involved in [conflit, contrat, négociation];
    7 Jur party; la partie adverse the opposing party;
    8 Mus part; la partie de soprano/basse the soprano/bass part;
    9 Math part.
    D parties nfpl privates.
    parti pris bias; parti pris esthétique/politique aesthetic/political bias; parti pris de réalisme/modernité bias toward(s) realism/modernity; Parti conservateur Conservative Party; Parti communiste, PC Communist Party; Parti communiste français, PCF French Communist Party; Parti démocrate Democrat Party; Parti républicain Republican Party; Parti socialiste, PS Socialist Party; Parti travailliste Labour Party; partie carrée wife-swapping party; partie de chasse Chasse hunting party; partie civile Jur plaintiff; l'avocat de la partie civile the counsel for the plaintiff; se constituer or porter partie civile to take civil action; partie du discours Ling part of speech; partie fine orgy; partie de jambes en l'air legover GB, screw; partie de pêche fishing trip; partie de plaisir fun; tu parles d'une partie de plaisir! iron that's not my idea of fun!; parties génitales or honteuses private parts.
    prendre son parti de qch to come to terms with sth; tirer parti de qch to take advantage of [situation, événement]; to turn [sth] to good account [leçon, invention]; faire un mauvais parti à qn to ill-treat sb; avoir affaire à forte partie to have a tough opponent; prendre qn à partie to take sb to task; ⇒ lier.
    Partis politiques In general, French political parties reflect a basic left/right divide. On the left, the main parties are the parti socialiste (PS) and the parti communiste français ( PCF) while the principal parties on the right are the Rassemblement pour la République ( RPR) and the Union pour la démocratie française ( UDF). These two groups regularly run a joint list known as the Alliance pour la France as part of an electoral pact. There are in addition more extreme groupings at both ends of the political spectrum. Beyond the left/right divide generally, the ecological movement is represented by Les Verts and Génération Écologie.
    I
    ( féminin partie) [parti] adjectif
    II
    [parti] nom masculin
    le parti communiste/conservateur/démocrate/républicain/socialiste the Communist/Conservative/Democratic/Republican/Socialist Party
    les partis de droite/gauche the parties of the right/left, the right-wing/left-wing parties
    2. (soutenu) [choix, décision] decision, course of action
    prendre le parti de faire quelque chose to make up one's mind to do something, to decide to do something
    prendre parti [prendre position] to take sides ou a stand
    prendre parti pour/contre quelque chose to come out for/against something
    prendre parti pour quelqu'un to side ou to take sides with somebody
    prendre son parti: son parti est pris her mind is made up, she's made up her mind
    en prendre son parti: elle ne sera jamais musicienne, il faut que j'en prenne mon/qu'elle en prenne son parti she'll never be a musician, I'll/she'll just have to accept it
    3. [avantage]
    a. [situation] to take advantage of
    b. [équipement] to put to good use
    4. (humoristique) [personne à marier]
    c'est un beau ou bon parti he's/she's a good match
    ————————
    parti pris nom masculin
    1. [prise de position] commitment
    avoir un parti pris de modernisme/clarté to be committed to modernism/clear-thinking
    2. [préjugé] bias
    je n'ai aucun parti pris contre le tennis professionnel, mais... I'm not biased against professional tennis, but...
    je dirais, sans parti pris, qu'elle est la meilleure without any bias on my part, I'd say that she's the best

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > parti

  • 16 Freitas do Amaral, Diogo

    (1941-)
       Legal scholar and teacher, jurist, civil servant, and politician. Born in Povoa de Varzim, Freitas do Amaral's father became a member of parliament in the Estado Novo's National Assembly. A superb student, the young Freitas do Amaral studied law at the Law Faculty, University of Lisbon, and became the top law student and protégé of Professor Marcello Caetano, who in 1968 was selected to replace an ailing Antônio de Oliveira Salazar as prime minister. Freitas do Amaral received his doctorate in law in the late 1960s and remained close to his former law professor, who was now prime minister. In his scholarship on the history of Portuguese law, as well as in his political and social ideology as a conservative, Freitas do Amaral in many respects remained a student, protégé, and follower of Caetano through the period of Caetano's premiership (1968-74) and into the era of the Revolution of 25 April 1974. More than 20 years later, Freitas do Amaral published his memoirs, which focused on the 1968-74 political era, O Antigo Regime E A Revolução. Memórias Políticas ( 1941-75). This personal portrait of Caetano's tribulations as a sometimes reluctant, well-prepared but probably inappropriately selected national leader remains an invaluable primary source for historical reconstruction.
       During the early months after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Freitas do Amaral entered politics and became a founder of the right-wing Christian Democratic Party (CDS). He served as the party's leader to 1985 and again from 1988 to 1991, and was a member of parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, from 1975 to 1983 and from 1992 to 1993. When the Democratic Alliance, of which the CDS was a part, won elections in 1979-80, Freitas do Amaral served as deputy prime minister and minister of defense and, when Francisco de Sá Carneiro died in a mysterious air crash, Freitas do Amaral briefly served as interim prime minister. He was a candidate for the presidency in the 1986 presidential election, although he lost to Mário Soares. In 1995, he served as President of the United Nations General Assembly. As a European federalist who disagreed with the CDS Euroskeptic line followed by Paulo Portas, Freitas do Amaral broke with his party and resigned from it. Although he was usually regarded as a right-winger, Freitas do Amaral backed the Social Democratic Party in the 2002 Assembly of the Republic elections. Disillusioned with the government's policies and critical of its endorsement of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Freitas do Amaral shifted his support to the Socialist Party in the 2005 election. The new prime minister José Sôcrates named Freitas do Amaral minister of foreign affairs in the XVII Constitutional Government, but the senior jurist and politician resigned after a year in office, for health reasons.
       After many years as a law professor at the New University of Lisbon, in 2007, Freitas do Amaral delivered a final public lecture and retired from academia. He is the author of a biography of King Afonso I, a play, and of various legal and juridical studies and is considered the most eminent living scholar in the fields of administrative and constitutional law.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Freitas do Amaral, Diogo

  • 17 Durão Barroso, José Manuel

    (1952-)
       Academic, scholar, and politician who rose to prominence after the Revolution of 25 April 1974. Trained as an academic in the field of political science and law, Durão Barroso received a master's degree in political science at a Swiss university in the 1980s and continued to a doctorate in Portugal. For some years, he taught political science at the University of Geneva. A student of Portuguese government and politics, he entered academic life in Lisbon at various universities, including the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon, and spent terms abroad as a visiting political science professor at Georgetown University in the United States.
       A leading member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) after 1993, he was minister of foreign affairs in the Cavaco Silva government in the mid-1990s. When Marcello Rebelo de Sousa withdrew from politics in 1999, Durão Barroso was elected in his place as chief of the PSD; he led the party in the October 1999 elections, won by the Socialist Party (PS) under Guterres. The defeat of the PSD in this election, whose final results were closer than predicted, cast a shadow on the leadership position of Durão Barroso, whose brittle style and manner of public speaking aroused controversy. The position of the PSD, however, still retained some strength; the results of the October 1999 elections were disappointing to the PS, which expected to win an overall majority in the Assembly of the Republic. Instead, the PS fell one seat short. The electoral results in seats were PS (115) to PSD (81). As the PS's hold on the electorate weakened during 2001, and the party was defeated in municipal elections in December 2001, the PSD's leader came into his own as party chief.
       In the parliamentary elections of 17 March 2002, the PSD won the largest number of seats, and Durão Barroso was appointed prime minister. To have a majority, he governed in coalition with the Popular Party (PP), formerly known as the Christian Democratic Party (CDS). Durão Barroso reduced government spending, which affected the budgets of local governments and civil service recruitment. These measures, as well as plans to accelerate privatization and introduce labor reforms, resulted in a public-sector worker's strike in November 2002, the first such strike in 10 years. Durão Barroso decided to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a freeze on the wages of employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than 50 percent of the workforce.
       In 2004, he became president of the Commission, European Union (EU). He took up the office on 23 November 2004, and Pedro Santana Lopes, then the PSD mayor of Lisbon, became prime minister. Portugal has held the six-month rotating presidency of the EU three times, in 1992, 2000, and 2007.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Durão Barroso, José Manuel

  • 18 Sousa, Marcelo Rebelo de

    (1949-)
       Political leader and administrator, law professor, editor, and writer. A son of Baltazar Rebelo de Sousa, important administrator, governor-general of Mozambique, and cabinet minister during the Estado Novo, Rebelo de Sousa took a law degree at the University of Lisbon Law Faculty. Near the end of the Estado Novo, he was a founding editor of the influential, independent weekly paper Expresso, and years later became director or chief editor. As a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Rebelo de Sousa held a variety of positions from deputy to the Constituent Assembly, which wrote the 1976 Constitution, to ministerial posts. He moved up in the PSD after the retirement of Aníbal Cavaco Silva in 1995 to become leader of that party, the most important political grouping next to the Socialist Party (PS). Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was an unsuccessful candidate for prime minister in the 1999 elections for the Assembly of the Republic. A noted legal authority and a law academic who publishes frequently, he remained a professor of law at University of Lisbon's Law Faculty and the Catholic University, and was the author of law texts. He has also held various municipal posts from Cascais to Celorico de Basto.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Sousa, Marcelo Rebelo de

  • 19 Labour

    'leibə 1. noun
    1) (hard work: The building of the cathedral involved considerable labour over two centuries; People engaged in manual labour are often badly paid.) kroppsarbeid
    2) (workmen on a job: The firm is having difficulty hiring labour.) arbeidskraft
    3) ((in a pregnant woman etc) the process of childbirth: She was in labour for several hours before the baby was born.) fødselsveer
    4) (used (with capital) as a name for the Socialist party in the United Kingdom.) Arbeiderpartiet
    2. verb
    1) (to be employed to do hard and unskilled work: He spends the summer labouring on a building site.) arbeide tungt, slite
    2) (to move or work etc slowly or with difficulty: They laboured through the deep undergrowth in the jungle; the car engine labours a bit on steep hills.) kjempe seg fram, streve
    - laboriously
    - laboriousness
    - labourer
    - labour court
    - labour dispute
    - labour-saving
    slite
    subst. \/ˌleɪbə\/
    ( også the Labour Party (britisk)Labour (oversettes vanligvis ikke), Arbeiderpartiet
    vote Labour!
    Labour government arbeiderregjering
    Labour leader leder for Arbeiderpartiet
    labour leader arbeiderleder fagforeningsleder
    Labour member ( i Storbritannia) parlamentsmedlem for Arbeiderpartiet
    the labour movement arbeiderbevegelsen

    English-Norwegian dictionary > Labour

  • 20 Cohn Bendit, Daniel

       Nicknamed " Danny le rouge". Cohn-Bendit was the most famous and charismatic of the leaders of the left-wing student uprising in 1 968, which almost toppled the government of General de Gaulle. After the events, Cohn-Bendit, who had dual French and German nationality, left France and settled in Germany, where he more recently achieved prominence as a Euro MP, and member of the German Green Party. He has been a MEP for both the French and the German Green parties, and was reelected in 2009, when he led the greens to a remarkable third place in the popular vote, within a few thousand votes of the Socialist party.

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Cohn Bendit, Daniel

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