Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates on Wednesday described
US president-elect Barack Obama as giving "an opportunity of change to the
United States and the world."
"The voice of Barack Obama is a voice of hope," Socrates said in
his congratulatory message to the new US president, reported dpa.
Obama's victory "represents possibilities for a new cycle of relations
between the United States and Europe in the service of peace, cooperation and
of a fairer and more regulated globalization," the Portuguese premier
said.