Eduardo Dâmaso e Medina Carreira - Portugal, Que Futuro?

What do the Portuguese complain about most?

High unemployment, low wages, meager pensions, growing poverty, high taxes, the "mortgage" of debt, and a hopeless future.

There is only one solution to these ills: the "construction" of a more dynamic, productive, and competitive economy.

To that end, the next legislature will be decisive because, if it fails, like the last three, we will fall into a prolonged period of impoverishment.

In a debate with Eduardo Dâmaso, in the book *Portugal, What Future?*, Medina Carreira formulates his diagnosis and outlines some "recipes."

He only intends to contribute to a debate that will later be useless.

For Medina Carreira, the Portuguese "economy" is the first, the most serious, and the most difficult of all our current problems.

The Democracy of 1976 could collapse if political leaders fail to confront and overcome, in a timely manner, the disease that is deeply undermining our economy.