Government rejects "easy solutions" and acts in equilibrium

The Government turns down "easy or short-sighted solutions" given the current international economic context, set by the uncertainty due to the conflict in the Middle East, stated the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Carlos Abreu Amorim in the discussion on the worsening of prices in Parliament on 25 March.

The Minister said that the Government intends to preserve the economic equilibrium reached in the last two years, stressing that this has been decisive to relieve the tax burden, cutting interest and protecting employment.

"What’s at stake is not just responding to rising prices, rather making sure that Portugal does not lose the equilibrium that enables the necessary responses at each given time", he claimed.

Carlos Abreu Amorim also stressed that the economic consequences of the conflict are unpredictable in their duration, adding that action must be based on prudence and responsibility, rather than responses that ae "generated on alarmism and caused by hastiness".

"The Government responses will always be thought out and guided by considering many factors of public interest that the democratic responsibility of governance demands", he noted.

The Minister also assured that all the measures, present and future, will be guided by criteria of rigour, strategic prudence, and "cold blood", considered essential in decision-making in uncertain contexts.

"All we have done until now and the measures we will take in the future [...] will be guided by rigour dictated by strategic prudence", he concluded.