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History is cruel, but it is not useless. It creates a common destiny, albeit unequally. Opinion by Elísio Macamo.

Home News Commemorating Portugal’s 40th Anniversary in the EU Commemorating Portugal’s 40th Anniversary in the EU Portugal’s accession to the EU in 1986 marked the anchoring of the country’s efforts towards democracy.

They boarded the river ferry at the railway station at Barreiro and disembarked at the Terreiro do Paço, in central Lisbon, some 40 minutes later and climbed into their landau The post The Carbonária Portuguesa and the Regicide appeared first on Portugal Resident.

Home Curiosity Nuno Alvares Pereira 24/6/1360 - 1/11/1431 Nuno Alvares Pereira 24/6/1360 - 1/11/1431 Nuno Alvares was born to unmarried parents and descended from Portuguese and Galician nobility.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of Portugal joining the European Union.

The 40th anniversary of accession to the then European Economic Community is marked on 1 January 2026.

There were months of uproar and very expensive tickets that sold out in 48 hours. One hundred and forty years before Rosalía, after cholera and the quarantine, Patti, the 19th-century diva, polarised the capital in 1886.
