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When Portugal, under the Third Portuguese Republic, finally joined the EEC in 1986, most trade barriers with the rest of Western Europe had already been dismantled by the Estado Novo, with the exception of those relating to agricultural goods and fisheries and, more importantly, trade with Spain. [9] On the political front, Portugal was a ...
Revolution in Portugal became a byword in Europe. The cost of living increased twenty-fivefold, while the currency fell to a 1 ⁄ 33 part of its gold value. Portugal's public finances entered a critical phase, having been under imminent threat of default since at least the 1890s. [28] [29] The gaps between the rich and the poor continued to ...
The Iberian Pact (Pacto Ibérico) or Peninsular Pact, formally the Portuguese–Spanish Treaty of Friendship and Non-Aggression, [a] was a non-aggression pact that was signed at Lisbon, just a few days before the end of the Spanish Civil War, on 17 March 1939 by Portuguese Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar, representing Portugal, and Ambassador Nicolás Franco, representing Spain.
The National Union in Portugal under António de Oliveira Salazar and Marcelo Caetano (1933–1974) Salazar always rejected the label of fascist criticizing the "exaltation of youth, the cult of force through direct action, the principle of the superiority of state political power in social life, [and] the propensity for organising masses ...
The NU became an ancillary body, not a source of political power. [18] At no stage did it appear that Salazar wished it to fulfill the central role the fascist party had acquired in Mussolini's Italy; in fact, it was meant to be a platform of conservatism, not a revolutionary vanguard. [19]
No detailed list of German supplies furnished to Spain has been found. [191] Portugal supplied the Nationalists with critical ammunition and logistical resources. [192] Throughout the war, Portugal ensured that Iberian borders would continue to supply the Nationalists. The Nationalists even referred to Lisbon as "the port of Castile". [193]
The centre-left PS is a dominant force in Portuguese politics and has been in government the longest since the 1974 fall of a fascist dictatorship. Who are the candidates running in Portugal's ...
Spain * Spanish State: FET y de las JONS: 1936: 1975 Portugal: Second Republic of Portugal: National Union: 1933: 1974 Greece Kingdom of Greece: 4th of August Regime: 1936: 1941 San Marino Most Serene Republic of San Marino: Sammarinese Fascist Party: 1923: 1943 Austria Federal State of Austria: Fatherland Front: 1934: 1938 Slovakia Slovak Republic