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Coelho, Helena Cristina
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3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Ireland still a model for Portugal
The two crisis countries Portugal and Ireland have more in common than just their love of beer, a strong sense of hospitality and a fondness for good music. Nonetheless Portugal would do well to focus on the differences to Ireland right now, writes the business paper Diário Económico: "Both have alarming unemployment figures (almost 15 percent). Both saw their labour costs shrink by 1.7 percent (while they went up by 2.8 percent in the Eurozone). Both have had to beg for international help and can't guarantee right now that they won't need to borrow more money. … Today the two countries are bound by their weaknesses, the austerity measures, and Brussels' good will - and of course by their unwillingness to be compared with those undisciplined Greeks. … But the Portuguese should take a closer look at what the Irish are doing differently now. … Because even though it is still economising the Irish economy is showing the first signs of growth."
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More from the press review on the subject » Fiscal Policy, » EU neighbourhood policy, » Ireland, » Portugal
EU gender quota achieves nothing
EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding announced the launch of an initiative aimed at introducing a leading binding women's quota for boardroom positions at companies on Monday in Brussels. But equal rights can't be ordained by law, writes journalist Helena Cristina Coelho on the occasion of International Women's Day in the business paper Diário Económico: "Women are still a large minority in trade and industry, governments and parliaments. A glance at the figures just published in Brussels confirms this: only one of every seven boardroom positions are occupied by women. And in Portugal only six percent of boardroom posts are held by women - that's less than half the EU average. Viviane Reding was not pleased with these figures and immediately presented a solution: a quota system. … But this won't solve the problem because it is not a political but a social, structural problem. Society must change its timetable and its decision criteria. Because equal rights can't be established by decree."
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More from the press review on the subject » Gender equality, » Society, » Portugal, » Europe, » Global
Helena Cristina Coelho on the strategic axis in the euro crisis
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, are meeting today, Tuesday, in Berlin to discuss the future of Greece. Helena Cristina Coelho, deputy editor of the Diário Económico, writes in the business paper that she hopes Merkel will point a way out of the crisis despite the clear difficulties: "This is about Greece's future yet clearly none of the decision-makers can speak Greek or is in Athens. Everyone is based in Berlin, Brussels or Washington and is apparently having difficulties unravelling the knotted mess which the Greek economy has become. As if Athens didn't have enough on its plate with its own financial difficulties Angela Merkel [during her meeting with Sarkozy on Monday] once again got up on her high horse and started pointing her finger at the Greeks: either rapid progress is made with the restructuring of Greek debt or the next instalment of the rescue package won't be paid out. ... We can only hope that Merkel gives up the role of punitive leader and instead of making threats finds a way out of the crisis. Because these decision-makers have developed into a strategic axis that doesn't have to be an axis of evil."
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More from the press review on the subject » EU Policy, » Fiscal Policy, » Economy, » Greece, » Europe, » Global
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