Saturday 16th March 2024. The people’s sovereign voice has spoken. That’s the way it is in a democracy: the Socialist Party took a bit of a beating and emerged with …
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The Navigator Company – a subsidiary of SEMAPA PLC
Saturday 9th March 2024. Using the forest as a resource for doing business – with eucalyptus monocultures – is something that always works in favour of the Navigator Company. Even …
Read More »Dirty money? That’ll be from Brussels and Luxembourg.
Saturday 2nd March 2024. Can you smell the money? My first forest fire arrived without any declaration of war, yet we are now engaged in a battle that has been …
Read More »Helping dogs and cats?
Saturday, 24th february 2024. In the light of current events, we’d like to postpone our story about the Navigator Company until next week and take the opportunity to ask what …
Read More »ECO 123 follows the money. Where does the money come from and where does it go?
Saturday, 17th february 2024. The European Investment Bank (ElB) is the European Union’s long-term lending institution, owned by its 27 Member States. It finances sound investments that contribute to EU …
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Zero Emissions soon in Torres Vedras? Portugal’s first municipality with a serious climate action plan
Saturday 10th February 2024. Portugal has 308 municipalities. One of these is Torres Vedras. Located 54 km north-west of Lisbon, it covers an area of 407 km². The medium-sized city, …
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The Global Economy in 358 Pages. From Antiquity to the Present Day
Saturday 3rd February 2024. The small publishing house “Haupt”, based in Bern, Switzerland, has published an interesting and important book. Telling the story of the spice trade over 5,000 years, …
Read More »Last Museum before America!
Saturday 27th January 2024. Now, here for once we have not just talk – things are actually delivered. Last Monday, the new museum of Vila do Bispo was inaugurated by …
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Rural exodus. An op-ed by Uwe Heitkamp
Saturday 20th January 2023. Monchique, Portugal. According to the latest most recent census of 2021 there are still 5,462 residents living here. We’ve seen better times, when Monchique still boasted …
Read More »Where, in God’s good name, are we headed?
Saturday 13th January 2023. Right now, in wintertime, is a good moment to start thinking about the coming summer and to take some decisions on how we citizens in Monchique …
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