It's so typically Portuguese to look at good news and somehow see it as bad news. I'm Portuguese, and I too suffer from this syndrome at times.
Not this time. Glad to see Portugal is on the right track.
Not this time. Glad to see Portugal is on the right track.
Us not polluting is, obviously, great news.
What we had to do to get to get here is the bad news. We chose to invest cash we don't have in fixing a problem we don't (really) cause and to which we don't (really) have a solution for. This, while 1/4 of the population earns minimum wage. My conclusion still stands.
It sounds like culturally, those problems would still exist today i.e. due to corruption, but at least you have the renewables in place, as opposed to not have them.
I feel like you're looking for an ideal version that doesn't exist in reality.
For example: some years ago several people mentioned the roads of Portugal were the best of Europe. I had a hard time believing because many local roads were worse than I remember from most countries. After the 3rd person or so I started wondering and looked it up. Turned out this was only for highways, which Portugal has only a few and build with EU money. Plus Portugal was actually only second, the Dutch highways were the best. Something I suspect at that time was not really frontpage news in the Netherlands. Until today many local roads are very bad.