Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Lucas Boechat

Owners of Our Own Destiny

Helena Silva, CEiiA Board Miguel Braga, CEiiA Board The current pandemic has highlighted the weaknesses of a country highly dependent on foreign countries to procure equipment and other critical means to fight the current coronavirus. This pandemic triggered a global economic...

A Major Opportunity

Pedro Duarte, President of the Strategic Council for the Digital Economy of The Portuguese Industry Confederation (CIP) | Top Manager a Microsoft The year 2020 will be marked by the pandemic we all have been experiencing. Its impact on the...

“C” as in Consumed, Not COVID

David Azevedo Lopes, President of AEON Japão It was not easy to the first words of this article. And I believe those who read it share this too. We keep talking about Covid and its impact on our lives. Just...

“When we act, we sometimes get things wrong, but we will get things wrong always if we fail to act”

Manuel de Lemos, President of União das Misericórdias Portuguesas Writing about this pandemic and the role the Misericórdias (Mercy institutions) and the whole social sector have been playing recently is to write about something that the European and Portuguese tradition...

The University for the Future

Daniel Traça, Director of Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE) The relevance of university education with widespread access for the economic and social development of nations has been taken for granted for almost a century. The increase in...

A Recovery Plan That is There to Protect the State, Not Economy

Duarte Marques, PSD Member of Parliament The fight against the pandemic caused by Covid19 forced the adoption of a set of measures that destroyed many European economies. At the request of governments, companies were forced to suspend their activity and...

Let Us Reinvent Ourselves!

Paula Gomes Freire, Partner at VDA - Vieira Almeida March 2020. Since then the world has changed. Great Reset, New Normal, Next Normal are expressions that we often hear and give us an idea of the size and scope of...

Portuguese Presidential Elections 2021: The inorganic elections

Sebastião Bugalho The tenth presidential elections of the Third Republic will be different. The elections results may send signs of warning that there is something urgent that needs to be looked after: The country.The tenth presidential election of the Third...

2021: The Year of Portugal’s Accession to the European Union?

João Vacas, Consultant at Abreu Advogados The 1st of January 2021 marks the start of the next Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union begins. It will be the fourth time that our country will direct the work...

US Presidential Elections 2020: What’s Next?

Vasco Rato, University Teacher The US presidential election in 2020 will take place on 3rd November. Biden and Trump are the presidential candidates in the country’s 59th presidential election.American presidential elections invariably spawn a substantial amount of attention throughout much of...

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Building the future

Cunha Vaz & Associados, also known as CV&A, celebrates its 20th anniversary on 15 June 2023.
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AMO and H/Advisors – A short history

It all started 22 years ago on Madison Avenue. Three of the world’s most senior financial PR professionals met to discuss a ground-breaking alliance, that would change the shape of the communications industry.

A conversation with Henry Kissinger

Over two days in late April 2023, The Economist spent over eight hours in conversation with Dr Kissinger. Just weeks before his 100th birthday, the former secretary of state and national security adviser laid out his concerns about the risks of great power conflict and offered solutions for how to avoid it. This is a transcript of the conversation, lightly edited for clarity.

The world on the wrong path

A new geopolitical and economic order is being written through the emergence of China as an economic, military and diplomatic superpower and threatening the status of the United States. We are heading towards a multipolar world in which the search for strategic autonomy is changing the dynamics of international trade for the worse. Nothing will be more determinant to the world’s destiny over forthcoming years than the relationship between Beijing and Washington. Europe risks being a mere bystander.

Notable growth and still with potential to achieve

Mozambique two decades ago was a very different country than it is today. The population in 2003 had just broken 19 million, today it totals 34 million, which corresponds to an increase of practically 79%, an explosion in growth in a continuing trend that undoubtedly reflects a very relevant factor to take into account as regards this country.