The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, announced this Monday that former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi will participate again in a State Council meeting, in January, to talk about his report on European competitiveness.
The head of state made this announcement at the end of a conference that marked the third anniversary of CNN Portugal, in a hotel in Lisbon, in which he addressed “a special word” to the former president of the European Central Bank (ECB).
“A special word for someone who is arriving, President Mário Draghi, who will, in fact, be invited in January, once again, to the State Council, to talk about his report and his vision of Europe and the world”, he said Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. .
In this speech, the President of the Republic returned to the idea, which he has repeated lately, that we are experiencing the “end of a historical cycle” and the “end of an era of leadership and memories”, with changes in the international order and the balance of powers, and insisted on the need to reform political systems, referring in particular to the European context.
“Europe must reform its obsolete or slow-to-adjust political, economic, social and national systems. With those it has and which have created objective conditions for so-called populism, denialism and disinformation, there is no Draghi report that can have the success it deserves “, he pondered. .
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa argued that at this point “it is politics that must take priority in relation to internal and external economic management in terms of gains and losses, even when using the economy, giving it wings or preventing it from flying, firstly, in the new leadership, then, in the new balance of powers, in the end, in the new international order”.
Source: rr.sapo.pt
