Costa says Budget strengthens the NHS, support for families and businesses

André Cabrita-Mendes 26 November 2020, 14:55

The prime minister reacted today to the approval of the State Budget for 2021 by Parliament.

The Prime Minister today praised the State Budget for 2021 approved in Parliament this Thursday. The document was approved only with the votes of the PS, counting on the abstention of PCP, Verdes, PAN, Cristina Rodrigues and Joacine Katar Moreira.

“We left this meeting with a new tool, this Budget that reinforces the conditions of the National Health Service to face the pandemic, reinforces the conditions to protect families, those who are losing their jobs, those who need greater social support, those who deserve and need to see their income and wages strengthened, those who see their pensions strengthened, and everyone who sees their fiscal effort reduced, ”said António Costa today after leaving Parliament.

"It is also a Budget that reinforces our conditions to support companies, to support employment, at this very difficult time that we are facing," he said after the final vote on OE 2021 was concluded.

Academics minimize the role of the economy in the decision to close schools

“I would prefer not to give economic 'ammunition' for this debate”, said professor at the Catholic University of Lisbon João Borges de Assunção à Lusa, considering that “the problem of the closure of schools is the problem resulting from the education of children and young people ”.

TAP unions were warned that BE was going to propose an audit of Neeleman's management

The audit proposed by the Left Bloc will not be feasible in Parliament. The draft resolution delivered by BE to recommend to the Government an audit of TAP's private management, will not reach any conclusion in the sense of knowing what are the effective responsibilities of businessman David Neeleman in the management of TAP and in the financial situation in which the airline is found.

Sines registers 13% increase in container load in 2020

2020 was the “third best result ever in terms of container handling” in Sines, says the local port administration, clarifying that “in containerized cargo it is important to highlight the increase in volume related to the hinterland, which already represents more than 442 thousand TEU ”.