Davos: the Coast shows a Portugal safe to invest in a time of global uncertainty – the Public.en

The prime minister, António Costa, has highlighted this Thursday, in meetings of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, the transmission of the "good message” of which Portugal is a safe place for the investment of a moment of “great uncertainty at the global level”. In an interview with the Lusa news agency during the participation in the World Economic Forum in the framework of which he had several bilateral meetings, Costa underscored the successes achieved by the country, not only in the deficit of public accounts, as also on employment and economic growth.

The chief executive of the Portuguese is said to have passed in the meetings that the country has reached “the lower deficits of democracy, clearly below the limit that was set by the European Union”, noting also that the positive employment developments and the growth of the economy are “a good message to convey to the partners of the EU, the OECD, the IMF, the markets and the companies that think to invest”.

“in This time of great uncertainty at the global level, with the 'Brexit', with the tipping policy in the United States, there are a lot of people looking for safe places such as Portugal to be able to look to the future of their economies”, stressed. To the prime minister, a summit as “Davos is very important because there are several events that are being performed at the same time”, but is “above all a great opportunity to in one day,” if you can make lots of contacts “that would imply many weeks times to be able to establish”.

In the opinion of the Coast, this is an “opportunity to take advantage of”. Moved by this the Davos not only the chief executive, as the minister of Economy, Manuel Caldeira Cabral, and the secretary of State for Industry, John Vasconcelos. The head of the Government has not lost a minute along this Thursday, holding several bilateral meetings, for example, with the director-general of the IMF, having made interventions in the different sessions and participated in a lunch. On Thursday night, will join the rest of the cast of government to a dinner with the Portuguese.

In the corridors of the forum was still time to greet and talk with the european commissioner Carlos Coins or with the ex-president of the European Parliament Martin Schulz, in addition to the many Portuguese who were in Davos to work at the summit. These were not the only Portuguese names who made up the cast of this global forum, which began on Tuesday and ends on Friday, which received the UN secretary-general, António Guterres, the european commissioner Carlos Currencies and banker Horta Osório.