Has austerity increased competitiveness or improved the structure of the state? What do the experts say?
There were abstentions, spoiled ballot papers and no shows from over half the voters in the EU at the European elections, almost 73% in Portugal.
Have the voters given up, why this huge dissatisfaction with the political process? What went wrong with the economies of Europe and how can they be fixed?
These topics were discussed at the Associação Industrial Portuguesa, by António Saraiva and Mira Amaral as the bilingual book ‘Portugal after the Troika’ was launched.
The book was created by eight authors from four countries, coordinated by the consultant Jack Soifer.
Prefaced by Guilherme d'Oliveira Martins with summaries by Soifer from Sweden, John Wolf from the USA, engineer Luis C. Silva, lawyer and businessman Francisco Bívar Weinholz, and the former Vice Chairman of the AIP, Henrique Neto the book gives a truly global view as to where it all went wrong and how to fix our shattered economies.
Among the audience at the book launch in Lisbon there were diplomats, the ambassadors from South Africa and Israel, heads from the embassies of the Ukraine, USA and Japan, and businessmen from Belgium, UK and the USA.
The launch presentations will continue on July 2 at 17.45h in the Oporto Business School, at 21.30h at FNAC in Coimbra.
The Algarve will have two presentations - the first at 18.00h at NERA in Loulé and the final one at 21.00h at FNAC in the Guia shopping centre.
Alternative business thinker, micro-development expert and international sage Jack Soifer invites readers to the Guia event on July 2nd.
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Consider the current succes criteria in say municipals .. or the european funding bodies. How can a new employee be briefed in 'doing things right'?
Sergio is the departments leader. He has destroyed 4 British tourism business applications for 'certain' with a couple of strong possibles. All applicants have returned to Reino Unido - at least one gone mad with stress. An excellent result ...
Armando is newer like you but is showing great promise to challenge Sergio. Two certain 'destroyed hopes' and at least 3 possible failures - the applicants whereabouts or intentions unknown.
Including one total British idiot who has been applying for years with Sergio, now virtually bankrupt but still helpfully 'pushing on' at great expense. Seeing Armando as his great chance of progressing his tourism application.
Tourism SME's has been almost entirely closed - particularly to the British.
Constantly blaming 'red tape' and 'bureacracy' - then as now - entirely disguises a total inability by the Portuguese public and private sector to integrate with small scale foreign direct investment.
As anyone who has experienced it will confirm - the endless complication, delay and obstruction was entirely deliberate. To drive the Brit away - once they had spent their money !!!
In a more devloped society it would be called 'RACISM'. Here it is seen as 'Payback Time' for Mapa cor-da-rosa type indignities !!!!
Now Kindle the book for reading on the beach and beside the pool !