Jorge Sampaio
President of Portugal from 1996 to 2006
Photo: Wilson Dias/ABr, CC BY 3.0 br (Wikimedia Commons, cropped)
- 15h ago
Seguro urges more EU political integration on housing and energy in Slovenia
Portugal's President António José Seguro made his debut at the Arraiolos Group, an informal forum of EU presidents without executive powers, near Ljubljana on Friday, 16 October 2026. He tied the bloc's future to young people's access to housing.
- Jul 22
Luís Represas, Trovante vocalist and 'iconic voice' of Portuguese music, dies at 69 after prolonged illness
The musician, who founded Trovante in 1976 and built a celebrated solo career, passed away on Wednesday in Lisbon from lung cancer. Former President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who knew him since childhood, called the loss personal: 'Some of the best moments of my life I spent seeing him, listening to him and admiring him.'
