''As Europe grows together in its diversity, the European Commission challenges YOU to capture your vision of intercultural dialogue and share it with the world in the competition "Cultures on my street". All European residents, regardless of age or origins, are invited to participate. It's as easy as grabbing your camera and stepping outside the front door.''
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11
2007
European Development Days - Will Climate Change Development?
By Carina on Saturday, November 17 2007, 20:41 - Portuguese Presidency 2007
Report from Lisbon by Diane Halley
Climate change was certainly an apt theme for this year's European Development Days in Lisbon, if only for the very reason that we left Brussels on a Tuesday evening of five degrees, and arrived to a balmy Lisbon where temperatures rose to their mid-twenties during consecutive days of abundant sunshine. Something is up with our weather in Europe, let alone globally. Every Portuguese person I met remarked that the weather was extraordinary for the month of November. However, whereas our seasons appear to be merging in Europe, we are not suffering from climate change to the same extent as those in Africa and on other developing continents.
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09
2007
EU Finance ministers gather in Oporto
By Carina on Saturday, September 15 2007, 14:03 - Portuguese Presidency 2007
This meeting fits the scope of the Portuguese EU Presidency.
Author: Bruno Rego
Translation: Maria Alcaparra
José Sócrates visits Poland
By Carina on Saturday, September 15 2007, 14:02 - Portuguese Presidency 2007
UE-Ucrania Summit aims to bring ucranians closer to Europe
By Carina on Saturday, September 15 2007, 14:00 - Portuguese Presidency 2007
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09
2007
Campaign for a European referendum
By Carina on Tuesday, September 4 2007, 21:27 - Articles
In a joint initiative from the Union of European Federalists and the Young European Federalists, a campaign was launched targeting the gathering of one million signatures to demand a referendum to the European Constitution.
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09
2007
Ministers of Environment gathered in Lisbon to discuss water shortness in Europe
By Carina on Saturday, September 1 2007, 15:01 - Portuguese Presidency 2007
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07
2007
European Socialist Party opposes to Polish "moral clause"
By Carina on Thursday, July 19 2007, 14:05 - Portuguese Presidency 2007
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07
2007
Streets of Lisbon
By Carina on Wednesday, July 11 2007, 11:09 - Photos

By Mónica Guerreiro
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06
2007
Tagus
By Carina on Thursday, June 14 2007, 15:59 - Photos
This post is also available in: Portuguese
By Mónica Guerreiro
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06
2007
Lisbon Love Story
By Carina on Sunday, June 3 2007, 23:05 - Cities
This post is also available in: PortugueseThe river involves your shore, hugging you each morning, leaving your streets with the comforting presence of the sun rays that illuminate the faces of the passers-by who pass through you in hurried step. Almost never without time to stop. Almost never without time to lose themselves in the infinite stories that your lanes and paths conceal beneath times’ devir tissue.
Books
By Carina on Sunday, June 3 2007, 21:29 - Literature
Cafés Itinerary - the 'Idea of Europe'
By Carina on Sunday, June 3 2007, 21:16 - Historical Cafés Itinerary
“Europe is made of coffeeshops, of cafes. These include Pessoa’s favourite cafeteria, in Lisbon, to the Odessa cafes frequented by Isaac Babel’s gangsters. Include Copenhagen cafes, where Kierkgaard stoped by on his focused walks, to the Palermo counters […]. May one draw the map of cafeterias and one will get one of the “Idea of Europe” essential markers.”
George Steiner, The Idea of Europe
Steiner’s sentence inspires CafeBabel: a space where hundreds of people speaking different languages converge, finding around a café – even if virtual – the share of values that build our continent. With this project, we intend to make the cafes that marked Portugal’s social, cultural and political life known.