Portugal na imprensa estrangeira - "Costa confounds critics as Portuguese economy holds course" - Peter Wise

Concerns remain but anti-austerity Socialist premier has outperformed expectations

Portugal na imprensa estrangeira: "Le labo des gauches gagne en expérience"

La coalition entre PS, PC et «Bloc», qui dirige le pays depuis un an, est parvenue à sortir le pays de l’austérité. La dette publique de 130% du PIB inquiète, mais les premiers résultats sont prometteurs.

Portugal na imprensa estrangeira - "Otro triunfo de la diplomacia portuguesa" - Javier Martín

La elección de António Guterres es un triunfo de su empeño personal, pero también es un triunfo de la diplomacia portuguesa, incluso un triunfo de la carrera diplomática en general, como actividad profesional.

Portugal na imprensa estrangeira - "Sun, surf and low rents: why Lisbon could be the next tech capital"

As 50,000 people arrive for Web Summit, Portugal hopes its capital can lead a national resurgence

Portugal na imprensa estrangeira - "On the waterfront: Lisbon's riverside regeneration"

Boyd Tonkin finds great buildings, a bold new art gallery and custard pies to die for in Portugal’s capital

Portugal na imprensa estrangeira - "Alfama: El Corazón musical de Lisboa"

La capital portuguesa tiene en el barrio de Alfama algunos de los mejores exponentes del fado, la música que es patrimonio de la humanidad y - sobre todo - que mejor resume el espíritu de la ciudad. Así es una noche de nostalgia en el club más clásico del barrio más antiguo y popular.

Portugal na imprensa estrangeira - "Portuguese character trumps French frailty" - Tunku Varadarajan

One team had the will to win. The other just had je ne sais quoi.

Portugal na imprensa estrangeira - "La bomba escondida en el dribling de Cristiano Ronaldo"

Cristiano Ronaldo está a punto de culminar en Saint Denis la epopeya personal que comenzó en Lisboa durante la Eurocopa de 2004. Entonces tenía 19 años, parecía resistente como la goma, y, aunque corría el doble, apenas había mostrado una fracción de las posibilidades que pueden elevar a Portugal hasta la conquista del primer gran título de su historia.

Portugal na imprensa estrangeira - "Portugal runs for four days straight on renewable energy alone"

Zero emission milestone reached as country is powered by just wind, solar and hydro-generated electricity for 107 hours

Portugal na Imprensa estrangeira: "El éxito de Portugal al reinsertar drogadictos, precedente para España" - Aitor Hernandéz-Morales

No es difícil considerar a Lisboa una especie de paraíso a orillas del Atlántico. Sin embargo, entre 1975 y principios de la década de los 2000, en aquel paraíso también había un infierno.

Portugal na imprensa estrangeira: "La gauche plurielle à la portugaise, un insolite ménage à trois"

Au Portugal, depuis octobre 2015, le PS, le PC et l’extrême gauche se sont unis contre les politiques d’austérité.

Portugal na imprensa estrangeira - "The old fights of Lisbon’s new left"

Here lies Portugal’s last Maoist guerrilla fighter. I sit at the foot of the unmade bed where he is resting, medical supplies strewn about, in a working class apartment of the port city of Setúbal, near Lisbon.

Portugal na imprensa estrangeira - "Tuk-Tuks, Three-Wheeled Outsiders, Make Themselves at Home in Lisbon"

Residents of this port city of faded beauty and ornately tiled facades have welcomed a surge of tourists in recent years who have helped turn around its economic slide.

But the foreign visitors, they will tell you, have also come with their share of trade-offs. Rapid redevelopment, spurred by tax breaks granted to foreign property buyers, has driven up rents and widened disparities. Streets are more crowded, the traffic worse.

Portugal na imprensa estrangeira - "Portugal might be the next stop in the euro crisis"

Europe's governments can survive anything other than austerity, which is to say they can't survive much at all.

Portugal na imprensa estrangeira - "Pourquoi la nouvelle coalition au Portugal est une chance pour l'Europe"

Le gouvernement portugais de droite devrait chuter mardi 10 novembre, renversé par une alliance de gauche. Ce nouveau gouvernement représente une nouvelle chance pour la zone euro. Saura-t-elle la saisir ?

Portugal na imprensa estrangeira - "Meet the ‘graffiti grannies’ of Lisbon"

The oldest is 90, the youngest 59 – and workshops in the Portuguese capital for older people who want to make street art are proving hugely popular.

Portugal na imprensa estrangeira - "Pedro Costa: Portuguese director who fashioned Gil Scott-Heron's film prayer"

In the world of independent film, nothing comes cheaper than talk of going guerrilla, of doing it all outside the system on minimal budgets. But Pedro Costa is one film-maker who can genuinely claim to do things differently. The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw once described the Portuguese director as “the Samuel Beckett of cinema” – which certainly honours the austerity of Costa’s vision. But you could also call him cinema’s Vincent van Gogh – an artist who has turned his back on the worldlier ways of film to find an intense, troubling poetry in urban life at its most disadvantaged.

Portugal na imprensa estrangeira - "Nightlife reports: Lisbon’s new clubbing scene"

See this square? A few years ago this was like The Wire.” It’s Friday evening and I’m walking through Intendente, an area north of Lisbon’s city centre that’s the latest part of town to experience a transformation from red-light district to nightlife hub.

Portugal na imprensa estrangeira - "Azorean Diaspora Can’t Resist the Powerful Pull of Home"

Before a recent religious procession here, a wooden statue of the Holy Christ of Miracles was draped in a new cape, but with a distinctly non-Portuguese twist: Images of Canadian maple leaves were woven into its silk and velvet embroidery.

Portugal na Imprensa estrangeira - "'Made in Portugal’ is on the Rise"

With a leather manufacturing heritage equal to that of luxury production powerhouses France and Italy, and offering comparable quality at a significantly lower cost, ‘Made in Portugal’ is on the rise.