State coffers will invest 6,700 million in renovations 2020 – TVI24

National Reform Plan will absorb 25 billion euros by 2020. Half of this money will come from EU funds and 6.7 billion national contribution, ie public investment announced Minister of Planning, Pedro Marques, at a joint press conference with the Minister of Finance, after approval by the Council of Ministers, programs Stability and this we refer to.

Has Portugal ability to invest EUR 6.7 billion in the coming years? to the question of jornlaistas, Pedro Marques claimed that the annual investment will exceed some billion per year and that these funds will come from all ministries, representing “public policy choices.”

the Minister sought to draw a line of demarcation from the previous executive, advocating that now aims to “align the country over” on competitiveness through a bet on qualification of human resources, business, state and territory, cites the Lusa.

in the view of the Minister of Planning, the National Reform Programme contains 140 “concrete measures, all timetabled and budgeted. “

” By 2020, involve a comprehensive set of resources in the order of EUR 25 billion, with about half of the program ‘Portugal 2020 and after about 6.7 billion state budget and the rest from other sources of funding such as the ‘Plan Juncker’ or from the European Investment Bank. The measures focus on areas such as education, innovation, hiring teachers, the vacancy rate in the pre-school network, attracting anchor investments, investing in electric mobility and urban regeneration, and granting better conditions to level of integration of companies in the export market “

in short, for the Government, the document is even” an action program for the modernization of the Portuguese economy. “

“We want to align the country above and not beneath. It is clear that it was not owing to the degradation of working conditions, social and wage degradation that Portugal managed to regain competitiveness, “he said, in a new criticism of the previous government.

The Executive socialist is confident Brussels gives green light to programs presented today, claiming that the scenarios are prudent and that the budget execution in the first months of 2016 is already “a business card”.