August is usually holiday month for the Portuguese politics but for Bruno Maçães, this is no impediment to further discuss economic issues on social networks.
Via Twitter, the Secretary of State for European Affairs became involved, on Monday, in an exchange lit for “twits “with Phillippe Legrain, British economist and former adviser to Barroso, who advocates a” European Spring “and explains, in a work, why the economy and the policy that is in Europe have to be changed.
The discussion seems to have started with sharing, by Maçães, an article in the Wall Street Journal, with the secretary of state to use it as evidence that the European countries in crisis “have left the worst behind” . Legrain answered sharing, ensuring that the “economy of Portugal is 7.5% smaller than seven years ago.” “Is that what you mean when you say that has left its troubles behind?” He asked.
Maçães responds, ensuring that Philippe forecasts are wrong and that “Portugal is growing without debt by first time in 40 years, “what motivates Legrain to continue the dialogue by ensuring that” Portugal is in a terrible hole. ” “Draw a smaller economy than seven years ago a success is nonsense. It’s worse than the Great Depression of the 30s weak growth, stifling debt, high unemployment, mass emigration” are some of the arguments that the British economist use.
“It’s wrong. The ideology is blind you to the facts. I believe that most people prefer to look at the facts,” retaliates Secretary of State. “I just give you the facts. Or will reject the data of gross domestic product of Portugal?”, Responds in turn, Legrain. “As I said earlier, it is impossible to debate whether people are exalted if it is proved that are wrong”, he Maçães, ending the (public) talk to the economist, who, at some point, admits have come to doubt the veracity of the account.
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