Young people are fleeing Portugal in droves

Portugal’s stagnating economy and aging and shrinking population.

With young Portuguese people leaving their homeland in droves in search of better-paid work, their older relatives and friends are worried about the future of the country.

The exodus, which is being compounded by a low birth rate, has seen the country’s population shrink by 2 percent, or 214,000 people, during the past decade, according to preliminary findings from the nation’s 2021 census.

However, around 80,000 people have been leaving the country each year. Most have been replaced by unskilled workers from other countries willing to toil for little pay in the tourism and agriculture sectors.

“At the same time as our qualified graduates are emigrating because wages here are so low, we are importing low-skilled immigrants,” David Justino, a former education minister and coordinator of the PSD’s election program, told the Financial Times newspaper. “This has the perverse effect of perpetuating a low-wage economy.”

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Antonio Costa

Portugal’s ruling centre-left Socialists won an outright parliamentary majority in snap general election, securing a strong new mandate for the prime minister, Antonio Costa.

Costa says parliamentary victory ‘doesn’t mean absolute power’ but he will no longer need to negotiate to form a coalition

A stable government is crucial for Portugal to make the most of a 16.6 billion euro ($18.7 billion) package of European Union recovery funds it is due to receive by 2026.

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Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho

Army officer who masterminded the 1974 coup that sparked Portugal’s Carnation Revolution.

Carvalho, the bluntly spoken military strategist, somewhat naive politically, emerged as a flamboyant, charismatic and much-loved leader, blessed with a wonderful sense of humour. He became widely known by his first name, Otelo.

In 1985 he was arrested, accused of being a leader of FP-25, a far-left terrorist group responsible for a series of killings and bomb attacks. Although he always denied any involvement with the group and its actions, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. While in Caxias prison, he met and fell in love with a divorced prison worker, Filomena Morais. He served five years before being released and was later granted an amnesty and pardoned.

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Portugal outrage after Spanish hunters massacre 540 wild animals

« The animals were fenced in. They had nowhere to run. This was a massacre. »

Portuguese officials have expressed outrage at the massacre of more than 500 deer and wild boar in a hunting zone in the centre of the country.

According to the weekly Express, the event was organized by the Spanish company Saint Portugal Monteros de La Cabra, specializing in hunting parties in the Iberian Peninsula and brought together 16 Spanish hunters.

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