"To improve its performance, Portugal needs more flexible labour laws, less bureaucracy, a better educated workforce, more competition and a smaller state. As the IMF states in a recent report, the country’s fundamental problems are domestic, not global, in nature."
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"But the fact that an investigation begun in 2005 is still going shows the inefficiencies and delays of the judicial system, another failing that harms competitiveness, deters foreign investment—and leaves the Portuguese despondent."
Estas frases resumem o artigo do The Economist, escrito no final de Abril de 2009 e que mostra que o 'descontentamento e pessimismo' dos portugueses têm razões de ser mas que o optimismo deveria ser preponderante.