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Portugal

World Cup 2018: Meet Portuguese superfan Nuno Gonçalves

They can travel thousands of kilometres and spend up to the thousands in euros, all to support their teams. Euronews chatted with a Portuguese superfan who is rooting for his team.

12/06/2018

Cult

World Press Cartoon: Drawing the news!

The 2018 World Press Cartoon event has been held in Portugal and for the first time a woman has won the coveted Grand Prix award

06/06/2018

Netherlands

Breaking into a military submarine was 'really cool'

Bob Thissen has spent more than a decade exploring some of Europe's most obscure relics. His latest adventure saw him spend a night on a submarine near Lisbon, frozen in time since it was last used more than a decade ago.

05/06/2018

Sport

World Cup Russia 2018: how to follow Portugal

Your team not going to the 2018 World Cup? You want to become a fan of another team? You know your friends, but you want to get to know your enemies? Learn to love them? Euronews can help with our basic toolkit for the Portuguese national team.

05/06/2018

Europe News

Environmentalists & farmers take EU to court over climate change

Plaintiffs charge EU with establishing inadequate greenhouse gas reductions, and failing to ensure the already inadequate cuts are respected. A group action is trying to force the EU to make tougher laws.

24/05/2018

Sport

Sporting Lisbon players 'attacked' inside training complex by hooligans

The club has condemned the 'acts of vandalism and aggression' after the intruders, reportedly armed with sticks and belts, left one of their players needing treatment for head injuries.

16/05/2018

No Comment

Eurovision Song Contest winner, Netta, performs 'Toy' during grand final

Netta Barzilai is sassy, she's fun and she can sing — and now the Israeli has won the Eurovision Song Contest with a catchy techno dance tune about women's empowerment.

13/05/2018

Portugal

Israel wins Eurovision Song Contest

Israel's Netta Barzilai won the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon on Saturday, bringing Israel its fourth victory in the glitzy pageant, watched by over 200 million people around the world, and the right to host the event next year.

13/05/2018

Portugal

ICYMI: Who stole the show at the Eurovision Song Contest first semi final?

It is that time of the year! Lisbon welcomes the first semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest.

08/05/2018

Sport

Porto fans celebrate Primeira Liga title win

Porto fans headed to the city centre's Liberdade Square to celebrate their first league crown for five seasons - a result which ends Benfica's recent dominance where they had captured the last four Primeira Liga titles.

06/05/2018

Sport

Watch: Brazilian 'breaks world record' for biggest wave surfed

Surfer Rodrigo Koxa broke the record as he managed to take on the huge swell at the famous Nazaré break in Portugal.

30/04/2018

Portugal

Eurovision 2018: First-time host Portugal keeps it simple

Organisers in Lisbon won't be putting on light-shows or videowalls for acts taking part in the annual songfest on May 12. Performers can, however, provide their own effects

27/04/2018

Portugal

Legal gender change set to get easier in Portugal under new law

The new legislation makes Portugal only the sixth European nation to allow a change of gender without medical or state intervention, according to activists.

14/04/2018

Portugal

Portuguese film pays tribute to a WWI hero

Portuguese cinema pays tribute to their greatest hero of World War I, soldier Anibal Augusto Mihais, nicknamed ‘Soldier Millions’, which is the name of the film. In April 1918, while his companions were all killed or wounded, remained in his trench fighting the Germans.

10/04/2018

Sweden

Suspected arson at Portugal's embassy in Sweden

A dozen people received medical assistance following blaze in Stockholm

04/04/2018

Economy

Easter strikes ground passengers

Some staff members at Ryanair and Air France are striking over the Easter weekend.

30/03/2018

Portugal

Hundreds of volunteers plant trees to replace Portugal's burned forest

Portugal has started the process of recovering huge areas of forest lost in fires that struck the country last year. On Sunday over 3,000 volunteers planted around 67,000 trees in Leiria in central Portugal. More than 80 percent of the pine forest was lost in the blazes that also claimed 114 lives.

26/03/2018

Next Series

European research teams find new ways to map the seafloor

Armed with what looks like a small army of autonomous robots, a European research team are finding new ways to explore the seafloor.

19/03/2018

Cult

Live performance: The Gift takes the stage at Euronews

The Portuguese alternative-pop quartet pop into Euronews' 'Green cube' HQ in Lyon.

14/03/2018

Cult

Portuguese cartoonists take aim at Trump and Kim Jong-un

In the exhibition opening in Vila Franca de Xira artists from across Portugal use their work to frame the world of 2017.

07/03/2018