The cold truth about Portugal’s misery

Why Portugal successively falls behind

After travelling the world and living in other countries for many years, it’s hard to understand how come Portugal successively falls behind in most of the European subjects. It’s like it tries to keep up and move forward, but somehow it ends up being an example of the worst. The current situation that Portugal is facing is just a reflection of what systematically happens to this nation.

Why is it that such a small place with conditions to be one of the greatest nations in Europe keeps showing mediocrity? Why is it that when you place Portuguese people anywhere in the world, they excel at what they do and, somehow, a country filled with Portuguese just doesn’t seem to be able to move forward?

Let’s analyse three conditions that are undermining Portugal’s success:

1 — Political Decisions

Unfortunately most of the political measures taken in Portugal don’t serve public interests. One could give several examples of how political decisions continuously contribute to the delay and even failure of this nation in a wide number of topics, especially in terms of economic development. Illegal tolls on the roads, one of the highest electricity rates in Europe or contradictory indications when it comes to the…