Opinion

To explain the simplicity of the grandeur of the word “Eco” to a child, I would talk about nature, everything that surrounds us, the environment. And I think that children nowadays are much more aware of things to do with pollution than my generation was perhaps, when some things were talked about much more and others much less. If we remember that people were allowed to smoke everywhere, in cinemas for example. I think that most journalism does not take environmental matters into consideration at the moment. Which is serious. Perhaps at the moment, despite everything, there are things that …

Depopulation is a problem that I would say is a national one; there has been an imbalance in the country in terms of the movement of people who seek out the cities and, as a result of this, the interior has become depopulated, as in the example of Monchique. The truth is that people have abandoned the countryside for the cities because they started to look for places where there was employment, and most employment is still in the cities. Today, people have a different view of these matters: special attention is being paid to living in rural areas, to …

Over recent months, I have somewhat incredulously witnessed developments in the BES saga. To any Portuguese citizen, BES has always been a part of their lifes. Almost nobody falls beyond their universe that extends far beyond the bank itself. How about the insurance company Tranquilidade, for example? Who doesn’t know it? Throughout many years, I was a client of BES both personally and through the organisations that I was a member of. Was this because BES was the best? No, because it was above all else big. In my case, I opened an account at the BES branch in Saldanha …

Cochonnes. The important opinion of the Chief Engine Driver of Portuguese Railways. Is Manuel Queiró perhaps afraid of saying something wrong? The new CEO of the railway company, who replaced retiree José Benoliel at the top of CP at the beginning of the year, is in permanent seclusion and saying nothing. Since February, he has stubbornly refused to give us his opinion about the future of Portuguese railways within the European rail system. Does he have his own opinion on the topic of privatisation? No comment. On modernisation, on investments, on debt reduction? No idea. On further redundancies or on …