The weekly meeting was in Evora, in the morning. And if the President and Prime Minister have never spoken in public next to each other, they had tuned speeches. Both desdramatizaram doubts the opinion of the Board of Public Finance on the Stability and both refused to enter the discussion of numbers, using almost the same words. It fell to Marcelo ease the political pressure of the draft resolution of the CDS on the document. And still defend the Government’s policy on refugees.
The day after approval by the Council of Ministers of the National Reform Programmes and Stability, Antonio Costa was to take the state of the art the head of state to Alentejo, where it is delivering the first chapter of his Portugal Next. The meeting of departure, Prime Minister devalued criticism of the Board of Public Finance (CFP), which considers that the government forecasts in the stability program are optimistic and there is default risk.
“I on forecasts hear everything. the Board of Public Finance say they are optimistic, the PSD says that lack ambition, “said Antonio Costa told reporters. A very similar formulation with Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa would use hours later: “Some say they are pessimistic, others are unambitious”
The difference between the two is mainly on what is most important.. For the prime minister, “more important than the stability program is the National Reform Programme”, because it is this that contains “the medium-term strategy” and “all the measures that allow to face and solve the structural problems of country. “
For the President, the verdict” truly important “is the European Commission (EC). “The CFP is a very important organ, even for our reflection, but truly important is the decision of the European Commission. Let’s wait a few weeks to see if the EC or not to accept the figures by the government, “said Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
Already on the CDS’s decision to take the vote in Parliament the Stability Programme, Costa He refused to pronounce. It fell to Marcelo deflate the balloon: “Democracy is that. The CDS, it seems, is the only party that will lead to votes the stability program, but has the right to do so. Even if all the others have said they disagree, the CDS does not have to agree with others, “said the President, noting that the party was” isolated “on the matter in Parliament, and therefore, says that his initiative has not” winning “at the time of the vote.
the line between the two heads of state and government, return to sound when the President brought to the agenda the issue of refugees. Before lunch with 13 migrants Community Centre of Évora the Portuguese Red Cross, Marcelo returned to praise the political choices of the Government in this regard and again put pressure on Brussels. “There’s something that does not work” in the distribution of refugees by host countries
“the Government and the entire Portuguese society have been very attentive to this reality – the platform support to refugees and the most diverse institutions have been very available to receive refugees the problem is European level: there is plenty of availability but later. is difficult to find refugees who want to come to Portugal, “he said.
” it’s an incomprehensible situation, but unfortunately is the situation in Europe, “he said. “Countries such as Portugal – which in proportion to its population, it is the countries that have most shown willingness to accept refugees – are available to receive thousands and then reach tens … This is going on all over Europe and have not to do with either the Portuguese society nor with the Portuguese government, “he insisted.
inside, heard the stories of life and promised to help. Nour Nasser never thought coming to Portugal, that only knew Cristiano Ronaldo and “perhaps Benfica.” But this Syrian architect of almost 27 years, surviving a shipwreck and many misadventures, is now happy: a half months after coming to Évora, the Red Cross has activated the emergency program that will allow you to make a graduate the University of Porto.
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