Costa says it is an obligation to ensure that young people can choose Portugal to work — DNOTICIAS.PT
The prime minister today defends the obligation to ensure that the new generation can choose Portugal to work, considering housing “the biggest concern of young people when they become autonomous”, an area where the State is “now acting”.
“On this day when we start a new year, it is important to remember that the future was built today, with and for the new generations. In education, employment, entrepreneurship, housing… In the generation of new generations”, says António Costa in the prime minister’s New Year’s message to Jornal de Notícias.
With a great approach to young people and without any reference to the current political situation, the chief executive recalls the “passion for education” of the also socialist António Guterres, stating that this “was not inconsequential” and that “education in Portugal has changed in these 27 years and, with education, he changed the country”, a passion that “continues today, with coherent and inclusive public policies”.
“The new generation offers us the greatest asset that a country can have: more compatible citizens. We therefore have an obligation to ensure that these young people can choose Portugal to work”, he warns.
According to Costa, along with the creation of qualified jobs, a “fair labor market” is needed, adding that “this month the Assembly of the Republic approves the Decent Work Agenda”.
“And we need dignified care. The Medium Term Agreement in Public Administration ensures that already in 2023 the base salary for entry into higher technical careers will be 1320 euros, supervising the private sector to increase care when hiring young people protected in career start”, he defends.
For the prime minister, “housing is perhaps the greatest concern of young people when they become autonomous”.
“After decades in which the State resigned from promoting public housing policies, we are now acting, also in conjunction with the municipalities. of Housing”, he lists.
The Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), continues Costa, “has planned 2.7 billion euros to invest in housing, which will be a real structural change to be implemented by the end of 2026”.
“Today we build the country that will be carbon neutral in 2050, which in the 40s will have a per capita GDP above the European average, which by 2030 will lift 660,000 people out of poverty, halve the number of children in this situation and will invest 3% of GDP in R&D, and that by 2026 it will have a public debt below 100% of GDP. This future must be built in the present”, he summarizes.