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...“El Mundo”, featuring Brazilian singer Flavia Coelho and producer Tony Romera, is sung in Spanish and mixes 1980s synth with EDM, and “Tout S’Illumine”, with French musician -M- (Matthieu Chedid) and US...
...Other readables Channel 4’s Gary Gibbon has the latest on how the UK government’s Brexit White Paper is taking shape....
...Recent milestones include exiting the EU’s “excessive deficit procedure” for fiscally wayward member states and earning for Portugal an S&P credit rating upgrade to investment status....
...The IMF forecasts 2016’s deficit will fall comfortably below 3 per cent of GDP, down from 4.4 per cent in 2015, the “lowest level in 42 years of democracy”, as Mr Costa describes it, “and one of the best...
...The move by S&P prompted one radical leftwing party to describe the upgrade as a “notorious and unseemly interference” in the election campaign two weeks before the vote....
...In July, her hour came, when a panel of experts discussed her life on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time....
...Trade union leaders representing about 500 pilots ignored last-minute appeals from Pedro Passos Coelho, Portugal’s prime minister, and others to call off the stoppage that TAP said could cause €70m in direct...
...Known as Car Wash, the investigation has fuelled calls for her impeachment and is placing not only Ms Rousseff`s legacy at risk but also that of the PT....
...(Reuters) Portugal’s government avoids collapse: Prime minister Pedro Passos Coelho said he had received assurances yesterday of continued backing from the junior partner in his centre-right coalition,...
...Pedro Passos Coelho, prime minister, is committed to cutting public spending by €3.3bn next year to reach an agreed budget deficit target of 4 per cent of gross domestic product....
...(Reuters)(Financial Times) Portuguese PM pledges to stay on amid threat of election: Pedro Passos Coelho says he will seek to establish a stable government despite the resignation of two key ministers and...
...The change in outlook means there is now more than a one-in-three chance that S&P will further downgrade Portugal’s debt rating within the next 12 months....
...In Portugal, Pedro Passos Coelho is struggling to hold his coalition together as political upheaval may undermine the country’s efforts to exit its €78bn aid programme on schedule....
...Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho said he would stay on despite the resignations of his finance and foreign ministers....
...(Reuters)(Bloomberg) Portugal announces fresh austerity cuts to offset court ruling: Portugal’s prime minister Pedro Passos Coelho said the government would have to cut spending on health, education and...
...The ECB’s 3 year LTROs had something to do with it… NEWS Portugal announces fresh austerity cuts to offset court ruling: Portugal’s prime minister Pedro Passos Coelho said the government would have to...
...Bond yields fell to 6.29% after Pedro Passos Coelho’s comments, but deep divisions remain over the pace of unpopular budget cuts....
...S&P’s BB rating of Portugal’s long-term sovereign debt is currently a notch below junk status....
...It´s actually hard to understand whilst there are mixed motivations behind it....
...Fix things in Brussels, S&P appeared to be saying, and you can fix things in Lisbon. Fitch, which also had a spate of downgrades last month, spared Portugal entirely....
...To the T and S of Eliot, the F and R of Leavis, the D and H of Lawrence? What did the “M” stand for anyway? Was it Maxwell?...
...John Stopford, head of fixed income at Investec Asset Management, says: “S&P’s action was important....
...Pedro Passos Coelho, the newly-elected PSD leader, said: “We place the interests of Portugal above everything and will support the government in taking all the necessary measures to cut the deficit.”...
...He came up with Anglesey Abbey, so good in leaf; S Arnott, the great spreader; and his own recently selected Trymming, with beautiful green markings....
...The penalties are four times higher than six months ago, S&P said. It seems that lenders are taking advantage of the number of distressed borrowers, in order to recoup credit crunch losses....
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