“After a vacation in Portugal last year, I noticed that there are a lot of job opportunities!”
“While my country is drowning in the crisis, Portugal suffers from an incredible economic recovery,” said this dynamic framework, which moved to Lisbon more than a year ago, before his wife and two -year -old two children were brought in last summer.
Today, the company you use, with the well -full requesting book, is about to develop internationally, with Spain and Qatar on the Internet on the horizon.
“It was from their help in this project that was recruited. I was immediately seduced,” said sunglasses and mobile phone.
Such a framework, many of them are concerned with the new opportunities provided by the Portuguese economy, which was released from the crisis in 2014, after three years of the 78 billion euro European aid plan.
Traditionally, a country of immigration, Portugal welcomed about 30,000 foreigners last year, according to the data of the National Institute of Statistics (INE). About 400,000 foreigners were already residing in the country in 2016, according to the service of foreigners and borders (SEF), which will publish a more detailed report in June.
In 2016, a turning point occurred, according to SEF data. Then the country turned the page of the crisis, which prompted many Portuguese to immigration and migrants in Portugal to leave to other countries.
“Today, we are witnessing a diversification of personal files with a more qualified migration than those that occurred before the crisis,” Jorge Malheirus, a researcher at the Institute of Geography and Regional Planning, told AFP.
In addition to the Europeans, who are mainly attracted by the imposition of useful taxes, “the Portuguese country that left during the crisis brought. With the exception of the European Union, migrants come mainly from the Portuguese African countries, Asia, especially from Brazil,” he added.
In Portugal, the economic appeal led to a lack of work in the tourism, hotels and construction sectors.
Between 2009 and 2015, the building lost 260,000 employees, “Today there are 170,000 jobs that must be filled,” said Roy Campos, head of the Portuguese Portuguese Association of Building Manufacturers (AicopN).
The Iberian country, which managed to apostasy after the debt crisis in 2011, recorded a growth of 2.7 % in 2017, the strongest since 2000, and the unemployment rate at 7.6 % in February, the lowest level for 14 years. For 2018, the government is gaining 2.3 % growth and unemployment rate at 7.6 %.
In the first quarter of 2018, growth slowed, with GDP increased by 0.4 %, compared to 0.7 % over the past three months of 2017, according to an estimate of INE. Slowness is especially explained by the decrease in external demand.
“These numbers are not disappointing,” said economist Roy Barbara of Cargosa Bank.
With AFP
