Lisbon Summit: NATO face´s new unexpected "ennemies"

Lisbon - The rock band Arcade Fire from Montreal, Quebec, (Canada),
and fronted by the husband and wife duo of Win Butler and Régine Chassagne, was the first victim of the NATO summit in Lisbon. Their concert, scheduled to Friday at Pavilhão Atlântico, was cancelled for security reasons, accordingly to the police.
Thousand’s of the band fans protested bitterly in newspapers and social networks against the short-notice postponement of the concert by the Portuguese police.
Lisbon will be a fortress, with more than ten thousand policemen and secret services agents from all NATO members, from the next Friday to Sunday, due to the tight security measures adopted by Portugal. After all, 60 head of states, including the Presidents of the United States, Barack Obama, and Russia, Dmitri Medvedev, will meet here.
Portuguese borders are now again operative and passport controls are mandatory in all check points even for European Union citizens “in order to assure the maintenance of the public order” during the summit.
Other victims of the summit are the restaurant and bar owners, employees and residents of the Parque das Nações neighbouring were the meeting will take place.
Getting around Parque das Nações, the new face of Lisbon, by Friday
and in the weekend is usually all part of the fun for the lisboetas (the people of Lisbon).
Parque das Nações, in the oriental side of the city centre - an ultra-modern playground that is home to europe’s second largest Oceanarium, a huge shopping center, river walkways and concert venues, is the place were Expo 98 World Fair was held on the riverside wasteland. The all area is home to glam waterside bars and restaurants and futuristic architecture under the Tagus river hypnotic effect on
the city. But in the next weekend restaurants, bars and the Casino will be deserted places.
To go inside Parque das Nações everybody must show a police credential, even residents, and nobody is allowed to drive or park in this vast area.
In the last decade, this part of Lisbon has undergone a renaissance,
transforming itself from a swamp riverside into one of most vibrant
party places in the Portuguese capital.
Having "cleared” the neighbourhood of terrorist threats by the police,
Parque das Nações (Nations Park) gives credit to his name when so many
head of states and international delegations meet here for the NATO
summit.
The only hope now for restaurant owners is that some of the thirty thousand members of all this delegations attending the summit don’t go to early to bed and spend some money there and not only contemplate all of Lisbon's beauty in her fluky and charming manner.

- Sérgio Soares