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Two hundred and sixty-four years have elapsed since, on 28 July 1736, a decision by King D. Jodi:, V created a department in the Portuguese administration that can be regarded as the direct predecessor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs — the State Secretariat of Foreign Affairs and War. It is also 180 years since those two areas were separated in the aftermath of the Liberal Revolution, giving rise to the State Secretariat of Foreign Affairs. It would be no exaggeration to say that, throughout that extended period, ‘Palácio das Necessidades’ (as it has traditionally been designated owing to the fact that the Ministry has been based in the building bearing that name since 1911) has always assumed a special role in the framework of the Portuguese public administration and acquired a primus inter pares position.
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Jorge Borges de Macedo, Históric Diplomática Portuguesa — Constantes e linha de força (Lisbon: IDN, 1987) p. 12.
‘The war years revealed a remarkable team of Portuguese diplomats and one of Salazar’s main merits was to surround himself with them’, Antonio José Telo, Portugal na Segundo Guerra, 1941–45, Vol. II (Lisbon: Ed. Vega, 1991) p. 255.
One of the most distinguished Portuguese diplomats of that time asserts that ‘few periods in the history of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs equal the dramatic moments and the intense diplomatic activity of the sixties decade’, Joao Hall Themido, Dez anos em Washington (Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 1995) p. 14.
Decree-Law no. 306/177 of 3 August and Decree-Law no. 185/79 of 20 June. Useful information can be found in chapter XVII (The management and coordination of Community Affairs during Portugal’s accession negotiations) of Pedro Alvares’s, The Enlargement of the European Union and the Experience of Portugal’s Accession Negotiations (Oeiras: INA, 1999).
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António José Telo, Do Tratado de Tordesilhas à Guerra Fria (Blumenau: Editora Fure, 1996) p. 14.
In this sense, José Medeiros Ferreira, ‘Political Costs and Benefits for Portugal arising from membership of the European Community’, in Portugal and EC Membership Evaluated, José Silva Lopes (ed.) (London: Pinter Publishers, 1993) p. 178.
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Correia, J.M.M. (2005). Portugal. In: Hocking, B., Spence, D. (eds) Foreign Ministries in the European Union. Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-28783-9_12
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