Guido Rampoldi
Born in 1952, Italian journalist Guido Rampoldi is a senior reporter for La Repubblica, and a specialist writer on the Middle East and Islam. His books include L’innocenza del male. Dalla guerra fredda all’Iraq (Laterza, 2003) and A chi appartiene oggi il potere (Mondadori, 2006). In 2007, he won the Barzini award for outstanding foreign correspondents.
Portugal, along with the other so-called "PIGS" (English acronym for the economic laggards Portugal, Ireland – or Italy –, Greece, Spain), is in a tight spot. But its modest dynamism appears to have shielded it from the worst effects of the economic crisis.