Rich people rule and poor people live the best they can – Jóse Saramago While poor people are hardly recovering from the economic crisis, rich people get richer. Portugal’s 25 richest families possess this year €18.8 billion – 10% of the country’s wealth (GNP) – against 15 billion euro in 2016. ‘This almost 4 billion increase […]
Portugal sells EU citizenship to corrupt millionaires, while thousands of refugees are knocking in vain on Europe’s door. The waiter in restaurant São Pedro do Estoril speaks with that typical melodious accent. ‘You are right’, Liandro says. ‘I’ am not from here but from Belo Horizonte in Brazil. If I can keep up working in […]
‘Portugal is one of the most racist countries in the EU’ – European Social Survey – ‘No one has ever said to me that I could not rent the house because I’m black’ Mamadou Ba is born in Senegal and has the Portuguese nationality. He is graduated, has a steady job at the Parliament, and […]
‘There are nurses who don’t care anymore if they are fired’ – Ana Rita Cavaco. In the week that Apple presents its newest iPhone X with face recognition, Portuguese nurses show their faces in a 5-day strike, as the climax in a dragging conflict between the nursing trade union (SEP) and the Minister of Health […]
Childhood exercise has a protective effect on health later in life. While active childhood reduces obesity ( Zwaargewichten) in the short term, long term benefits might even be more crucial. Recent studies show, that the more exercise children had during adolescence, the more likely they were to be successful professionally. The reason for this is, […]
Collectie Joan MIRÓ in Lissabon – Palácio da Ajuda – vanaf 7 september 2017
It’s like Lenin said: look for the persons who benefit and you will know. Once upon a time, there was a friendly country, in the South of Europe bordering the Atlantic Ocean, that used to export cork, tinned sardines and cheap labor. But back in 2008 things changed as a worldwide economic recession forced the […]
When I was stopped by the police and asked them ‘why’, the officer said ‘a black man is always suspicious’ – José Fernandes, legal advisor. In Portugal, prisons are painted black! Of every 10 prisoners, 9 (90%) are Africans. If you are from Cape Verde, the situation becomes even worse, as 15 times more Cape […]
‘My grandparents had five children, three boys, and two girls. They all looked different,’ says Ermelinda – my 64 years old neighbor – when I ask her what actually makes the Portuguese Portuguese. ‘João was the smallest with his 166 cm. Both his hair and eyes were dark brown. Manuel was just about 190 cm. […]
Quando oiei a terra ardendo When I saw the burned land Qua fogueira de São João Like the ‘bonfire of Saint John’ Eu perguntei a Deus do céu, uai I asked the […]