Come chocolates, Portugal, come | Opinion
The last decade of Portugal can be synthetically defined through two simple sentences, uttered by two prime ministers: “Emigram” and “Can I go to the bank?”
In the first, Passos Coelho explicitly recognized Portugal’s impotence for the future, expectations and dreams for an entire generation known in freedom.
Faced with the paradox and the drama, I formulated the question here in PÚBLICO: “When will Portugal put down its suitcase and raise its head?”
Apparently, it won’t be true. The resources that can be considered a lost generation, without the possibility of housing, without work, consequently, without the financial capacity to start a family, in a country devastated by a huge demographic problem.
I don’t even know whether to call Portugal, this Iberian region, if a country is still a country that is openly a protector of Europe, it can be a dependent protectorate. Official dependency and recognizably recognized by Costa’s phrase: “Can I go now?”
In 2019, Portugal’s potential GDP growth was around 1.5% per year, one of the lowest in the European Union, with a progressive loss of productivity and competitiveness. In the last 20 years, Portugal has grown by 0.5% per year.
GDP, completely dependent on Tourism and the inflated spiral of Real Estate. GDP, that is, mass tourism and golden visas, are highly destructive of local identity and phenomena of living and residential stability. To this, the tax hypotheses were added, in better contrasts with the international investors, who took advantage of the hypotheses, of an average of 1500 euros tax, loadem.
The storm, already with a cost-of-living force, was further aggravated by the perfect future of the combination of ECB correction changes with a progressive increase in incidence rates.
What does António Costa intend to do with the total support to the lost fund of 15,628 million euros provided by the protector Europa through the PRR?
Despite the concerns expressed by Christine Lagar about the dangers of the foundation of Southern Europe, everyone knows that the great source of the problem lies in Italy and its debt due to the importance of the scale of the common market economy, capable in its implosion of leading to the extinction of the euro.
Therefore, it is not insignificant and it deals with the inhabitants of Portugal, the country in question, with innkeepers and tourist guides but with Italy.
Costa has in his reactions to the return of Ukraine and the candidacy for accession to accession to the EU, as it is about great nervousness of an entire stretch of Balkans that extend. An intense and impatient queue of a growing group that also “want to go to the bank”.
Come chocolates, Portugal, come. Come and shut up, peripheral!