Blame neoliberal ghouls which, as the saying goes, "never let a good crisis go to waste". It was the perfect time to get public assets from the Portugese state,

Blame neoliberal ghouls which, as the saying goes, "never let a good crisis go to waste". It was the perfect time to get public assets from the Portugese state, Greek state, Spanish state, etc, at a massive discount. A fire-sale of public goods, if you will. Also, by the way, a great time to push policies which made youth unemployment go to 30, 40, or even 50% (!), to get those sweet qualified youths to go work as nurses, doctors, engineers, in Germany, Netherlands, the UK, etc. Blame also the eagerly colaborationist Portuguese government from 2011–2015.