Portugal
-
Portugal
Shopping in the troika era
6 February 201214Jornal de Negócios Lisbon -
27 January 201224Süddeutsche Zeitung Munich
-
25 January 20124El País Madrid
-
Arms industry
Greece still splashes out billions on defence
11 January 201234Die Zeit Hamburg -
Economic crisis
Portuguese companies flee to Netherlands
4 January 2012PresseuropJornal de Negócios -
Emigration
The Greek exodus to Australia
22 December 201115The Guardian London -
Eurozone crisis
UK prepares to rescue Eurogeddon refugees
19 December 201163PresseuropThe Times -
6 December 201115Expresso Lisbon
-
Who’s afraid of Germany? (5)
Europe – an awfully wonderful family
25 November 201119Die Zeit Hamburg -
Portugal
General strike against austerity
24 November 20111PresseuropPúblico -
Portugal
My neighbour, the Prime Minister
17 November 20111Expresso Lisbon -
Editorial
With TINA at the helm
4 November 20112Presseurop -
Eurozone crisis
They forget about growth
28 October 20114Les Echos Paris -
Immigration
Europeans up sticks
14 October 20113Adevărul Bucharest -
14 October 20111PresseuropPúblico
-
Portugal
Silva takes stand against “Merkozy”
13 October 20111PresseuropPúblico -
Eurozone crisis
Troika believes in Potemkin villages
12 October 20118Irish Independent Dublin -
Portugal
Boss of Madeira in narrow victory
10 October 2011PresseuropDiário de Notícias -
Portugal
Deutsche Bank profits from crisis
20 September 2011Presseuropi -
13 September 2011De Volkskrant Amsterdam
-
30 August 2011Het Parool Amsterdam
-
9 August 20111PresseuropAdevărul
-
Debt crisis
Final summer holiday for the euro?
5 August 201115La Repubblica Rome -
Debt crisis
Credit markets defiant
4 August 20112Presseurop -
2 August 20111PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna
-
European Union
Without the South, the North loses Europe
27 July 20118Le Temps Geneva -
Debt crisis
Dublin and Lisbon to pay out less
22 July 2011PresseuropIrish Independent -
Italy
Berlusconi’s shipwreck
15 July 20112La Repubblica Rome -
Editorial
Paralysis
15 July 2011Presseurop -
Eurozone crisis
Understand the banks and you save the euro
14 July 201111Die Zeit Hamburg -
Eurozone crisis
ECB puts up a fight
8 July 2011Presseurop -
7 July 20115Público Lisbon
-
Debt crisis
War declared on rating agencies
7 July 20111PresseuropPresseurop -
Debt crisis
Portugal’s junk status gives Ireland jitters
7 July 2011PresseuropThe Irish Times -
Debt crisis
Moody’s bins Portugal
6 July 20111Presseuropi -
Austerity
Belt tightening general across Europe
1 July 20111PresseuropPúblico -
European budget
Crisis to change rules for structural funds
28 June 20111PresseuropPúblico -
27 June 20119Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Warsaw
-
Debt crisis
Portuguese promises, Greek guarantees
24 June 2011PresseuropPúblico -
Debt crisis
Euro – what Brussels will do next
23 June 20112Le Monde Paris -
Portugal
Storms ahead for new PM
22 June 2011PresseuropPúblico -
Debt crisis
Why the ECB won't allow restructuring
21 June 20113Mediapart Paris -
17 June 2011PresseuropPúblico
-
Debt crisis
Credit rating agencies go after euro
13 June 201110Libération Paris -
Editorial
Strike two
7 June 2011Presseurop -
Debt crisis
Portugal swings right... into more austerity
6 June 20112Público Lisbon -
Portugal
What future after the election?
3 June 2011PresseuropPúblico -
Political fiction
Onwards to Europe 2.0
30 May 20117Die Welt Berlin -
Debt crisis
Portuguese banks threatened by Greece
27 May 2011PresseuropJornal de Negócios -
Eurozone crisis
Merkel — populism never takes holidays
19 May 20115Jornal de Negócios Lisbon
Since Portugal has been subjected to an austerity regimen by the EU/ECB/IMF troika, Portuguese consumers have adapted their habits. The crisis is pushing consumers to save but also to be more creative. 
It is the madness that has become self-evident: for years, the public sphere has been plundered and democracy ruined. The German writer Ingo Schulze has had enough. Here he sets out ten reasons to take himself seriously again. 
A former textile industry boom town, Guimarães is using its 2012 European Capital of Culture status to resurface after over twenty years in the economic doldrums. 
Frigates, tanks and submarines: Greece may be teetering on the brink, but the bite of austerity hasn’t come near its military. And Germany is profiting from it. 
For young Europeans from crisis stricken states, booming Australia has become a new land of opportunity. This is especially true for a new generation of Greek graduates, joining the largest expatriate Greek community in the world. 
To cut its debt, Portugal’s government has embarked on a far-reaching privatisation program. Brazilian, Chinese and Angolans are the main candidates for taking over its national enterprises. 
A family with strict parents, black sheep and tough love: that’s today’s Europe, says an editor at Die Zeit, who sends out a call to defend the historically unprecedented culture of solidarity. 
In the suburban street in Lisbon that is home to Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, the crisis has come knocking. Expresso reports on the manner in which austerity measures imposed by their high-profile neighbour have affected the lives of middle-class Portuguese who live in the area. 
The agreement reached by the seventeen states of the eurozone is leaving out one crucial issue: growth. Two problems therefore remain unresolved: the lack of a common macroeconomic policy and the divisions between the member countries. 
The crisis is forcing more and more Europeans to emigrate. For young people in Mediterranean countries, as well as for those in Eastern Europe, it's the north of the continent where salvation lies. 
In Greece, Ireland and Portugal, the EU and the IMF are living in their own fantasy of countries cured by austerity. But behind this facade, we’re beginning to see the reality of Europe’s banks filled with bad investments, writes the economic columnist David McWilliams. 
The slow response of European bureaucracy and Germany’s stubborn refusal to accept the sole remedy that can save the euro and Europe — collective management of public debt and an end to national sovereignty in budgetary policy — could effectively sink the euro.
While Rome and Madrid are doing their utmost to reassure the markets as to their solvency, the European press remains sceptical about the capacity of Europe’s 27 member states and EU institutions to credibly address the crisis. 
The countries of southern Europe are facing huge problems. But this no reason to neglect them or shove them towards the exit: the fate of the EU is linked to its southern countries, writes a reporter from Le Temps. 
Italy's sudden weakening in the markets has meant a blow to the credibility of Silvio Berlusconi, who has always said his country is doing fine. Today, with no sign of the Cavaliere, his government is hurriedly pushing through an austerity plan whose usefulness is far from assured. 
The fate of the euro is a matter of indifference to the financial markets. Investors are pulling their money out of Rome, Athens, Lisbon and Madrid. And Europe – especially Germany – is doing everything to drive off the financiers it so depends on. 
In deciding to raise its key interest rate and guarantee Portuguese bonds, the European Central Bank has taken a stand against rating agencies. Without actually doing any favours for the countries in crisis, notes the European press. 
Quick to denounce the ‘oligopoly’ of the rating agencies, European leaders have so far failed to take concrete steps to counter their baleful influence, writes Portugal’s Público daily. 
The debt crisis has laid the foundations for an economic governance that will accelerate European integration. In future, says the Polish columnist Andrzej Talaga, member states should hand over more sovereignty to the EU. 
With the single currency at risk of collapse, the leaders of Europe’s 27 member states are set to meet for a European Council summit to finalise the details of a mechanism that is supposed to prevent a repeat of the Greek crisis. 
For many economists, debt restructuring is the only possible outcome of the Greek crisis — an option that the European Central Bank has systematically refused to acknowledge. Médiapart argues that it would at least have the advantage of bringing much needed transparency to the banking sector. 
Considering that they failed to see the previous crises coming, Moody's, Standard & Poor's and Fitch are suspected of wanting to destabilise the euro zone, and now they are threatening the strongest countries. 
Even it has won the general election of 5 June, Portugal's conservative opposition will not be able to avoid implementing radical austerity measures concocted by the EU and IMF in order to head off its sovereign debt debt crisis. The same measures which cost outgoing Prime Minister José Sócrates his job. 
Forget the nation-state: Europe would be much better off if it were fundamentally reorganised – into powerful regions in the north and the Alps and picturesque bankrupts in the south 
In arguing that Greeks, Portuguese and Spanish shouldn’t have more holidays, Angela Merkel is not only spreading disinformation based on cultural stereotypes, but undermining the very foundations of the EU, argues a Portuguese columnist.