The secretary general of the Socialist Party, Pedro Nuno Santos, defended this Thursday a European strategy for industrialisation and housing, “two important battles” to keep far-right countries at bay.
“These are two important battles to guarantee a social Europe, where the extreme right has no space”We will only be able to defeat the far right if European citizens feel that politics provides answers to their problems,” said Pedro Nuno Santos, participating in the panel “How can we guarantee a social Europe” at the JS Summer Fest, in Santa Cruz, in the municipality of Torres Vedras.
For the leader of the PS, “without a European industrialisation strategy for the European Union, we will have countries with a greater capacity to support their sectors to distance themselves from the cohesion countries, that is, we think that countries should be able to help their industry, but We do not want countries like Portugal, Spain, Greece to be only service and tourism countries.”, he said.
“We do not want industry to be concentrated only in the richest economies of Europe, Germany or France. We want the European periphery to also have advanced industrial sectors,” he added, citing examples of energy, metallurgy or health.
The socialist leader also defended “European housing policies”.
“Housing is not a problem for an isolated country”All countries in the European Union are facing serious problems with access to housing,” he said, adding that “it is a European problem that requires a European response.”
Source: Observadora
