In this post, Sócrates and his team focused on the EU-Brazil ( 1st EU-Brazil summit ) and EU-African Union ( 2007 Africa-EU Summit ) relations, as well as in the approval of the Treaty of Lisbon.

José Sócrates had photos of himself taken during his morning jog at places like the Red Square in Moscow, Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana, Luanda, and Lisbon.

One of the most critic voice against the scarce collaboration provided by the Portuguese government to the European Parliament Commission which investigated CIA flights, Ana Gomes declared that, although she had no doubt that permission of these illegal flights were frequent during Durão Barroso ( 2002 – 2004 ) and Santana Lopes ( 2004 – 2005 )' governments, " during the government of José Sócrates, 24 flights which passed through Portuguese territory " are registered.

Portuguese prime minister José Sócrates announced that Alcochete was the preliminary choice, to be finalised after public consultation.

On 12 March 2005, the Prime Minister José Sócrates said that he would seek to have the Constitution of Portugal amended to allow that a referendum be held on October 9, 2005 alongside the municipal elections taking place at that time.

José Sócrates was born in Porto on 6 September 1957, and was registered as a newborn in Vilar de Maçada, Alijó municipality, in northeastern Portugal, since the locality was his family ancestral homeland.

However, the young José Sócrates lived throughout his childhood and teen years with his father, a divorced building designer, in the city of Covilhã, Cova da Beira subregion, in central inland Portugal, in the Centro region.

José Sócrates served as a technical engineer for the Covilhã City Council, and has been elected a member of the Portuguese Parliament since 1987, representing the Castelo Branco electoral district.

As a result of this, José Sócrates resigned as Prime Minister and early elections took place on 5 June.

In January 2008 a smoking ban came into force in Portugal's public buildings and on public transport, but Sócrates was reported to have been smoking in May during a private state flight to Venezuela where he met Hugo Chávez.

José Sócrates, the former Prime Minister of Portugal, was the leader of the leader of the party until 5 June 2011.

José Sócrates studied in Covilhã's basic and secondary schools, until the age of 18.

* José Sócrates, Portugal's prime minister ( until 2011 )

In addition, as a Member of the Parliament, Sócrates was not allowed by law to work as a technical engineer between 1987 and 1991.

* José Sócrates, law ( did not graduate )

On 19 February 2007, he resigned from his office in protest against the new law on regional finances enacted by the national government of José Sócrates.

Prime Minister José Sócrates was sworn in by President Jorge Sampaio on March 12.

Sócrates was re-elected in 2009 but lost the majority he had.

Bearzot, however, staunchly confirmed Rossi for the decisive round robin, in which his team was to face Argentina, the reigning World Champions, and Brazil, the biggest favourites to win the title with a team consisting of world-class players such as Sócrates, Zico, and Falcão.

He went on to lead his party to its worst result in parliamentary elections in Portugal ; the election of 20 February 2005 was won by the Socialist Party led by José Sócrates, with whom Santana Lopes had debated every Sunday for one year on the public television station, RTP.

José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, GCIH ( born 6 September 1957 ), commonly known as José Sócrates (), is a Portuguese politician who was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 12 March 2005 to 21 June 2011.

In addition to these posts, José Sócrates was Portugal's Minister for Youth and Sports and one of the organisers of the UEFA Euro 2004 football championship in Portugal, as well as being a former Environment Minister in the governments of António Guterres.

José Sócrates was one of the founders of JSD ( the youth branch of PSD – Portuguese Social Democratic Party ) before changing his political affiliation and applying for membership in the PS – Portuguese Socialist Party.

José Sócrates was ousted by the Board of the Guarda Municipality in 1990 and 1991, after being warned several times because of poor quality of construction projects and lack of monitoring of the construction works.

Sócrates was threatened with disciplinary action for wrongdoings in the technical direction of particular works of whose projects he was the author, but despite being ousted from this capacity, he was never penalized.

Two years later, Sócrates became Minister for Youth and Sports and was one of the organizers of the EURO 2004 cup in Portugal.

After the victory of his party in the 2005 Portuguese election, Sócrates was called on 24 February by president Jorge Sampaio to form a new government – the 17th Constitutional Government ( after 1976 ).

After the Portuguese legislative election of 2009, held on 27 September 2009, José Sócrates was elected for a second term as Prime Minister of Portugal.

After the Portuguese legislative election of 2005, Sócrates was called on 24 February by president Jorge Sampaio to form a new government.

After the Portuguese legislative election of 2009, held on 27 September 2009, José Sócrates was elected for a second term as Prime Minister of Portugal.

Sócrates resigned as General Secretary on election night after the PS's worst result since 1987.

In the parliamentary elections of February 20, 2005, the Socialist Party, led by José Sócrates, won for the first time in it's history an absolute majority of seats, while the Social Democratic Party led by Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes fell below 30 %, their worst result since 1983.

In 1977, Corinthians ' were able to win a title after a 24 year drought, and the early eighties saw the battle between Corinthians ( led by Sócrates ) and São Paulo's ( Serginho Chulapa ).

To many's surprise, Sócrates formed a cabinet made up of roughly half senior members of the Socialist Party and half independents, notably including Diogo Freitas do Amaral, founder of the right wing People's Party, who assumed office as Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( he later resigned due to personal issues ).

Sócrates is divorced from Sofia Costa Pinto Fava, an engineer, with whom he has two sons, José Miguel Fava Pinto de Sousa ( b. 1993 ) and Eduardo Fava Pinto de Sousa ( b. 1995 ).

Sócrates headed the government beginning on 12 March 2005, comprising the XVII and XVIII Governos Constitucionais ( 17th and 18th Constitutional Governments ).

In 1988 the team acquired its first home ground, King George's Field in Tolworth, and on a tour of Brazil, Sócrates played a match for the club, because he was a player of Sport Club Corinthians Paulista ( club founded in 1910 inspired by Corinthian, which played in São Paulo, Brazil, that year ).

Sócrates Cuauhtémoc Rizzo García ( born September 14, 1945 in Linares, Nuevo León ) is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ).

French philosopher Voltaire criticised Leibniz's concept of theodicy in his Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne ( Poem on the Lisbon disaster ), suggesting that the massive destruction of innocent lives caused by the Lisbon earthquake demonstrated that God was not providing the " best of all possible worlds ".

* October 19 – A massacre in Lisbon claims the lives of Portuguese Prime-Minister António Granjo and other politicians.

The Marquis took control of the government after the terrible 1755 Lisbon earthquake of 1 November 1755, in which around 100, 000 people lost their lives ; the palace of her birth was also destroyed in the disaster.

Originally it was a term applied to someone who lives in the rural areas surrounding Lisbon, the capital of Portugal.

Mariza, who lives in the upmarket Alcântara dockside area of Lisbon, has received many awards from countries such as Denmark, Australia, Canada, Germany, UK, Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea.

Preliminary data from the 2001 Portuguese census puts the population of the metropolitan area at 2, 815, 851 ( about ¼ of the Portuguese population ), of which 19. 4 % lives in the city of Lisbon.