O eurodeputado Miguel Portas afirmou que, apesar de todos os defeitos, “Portugal ainda não é um país que seja a coutada de Miguel Relvas” a propósito da demissão da Direcção de Informação do serviço público de radiodifusão na sequência de ataques governamentais ao exercício da liberdade jornalística.

Miguel Portas considers that the European leaderships “insist again and again in the same recipe, despite the failure of the results”. The MEP from Left Bloc spoke in the European Parliament plenary, met in Brussels, and manifested the conviction of change for the future, “one day this will change, one day the employment will count more than the markets, one day we will stop pretending!'.

MEP Marisa Matias defied the president of the European Council to reveal the existence of an Euro that is “direct investment in employment” among the measures that have come to be adopted to fight the crisis. “Why is it that governments only worry with the austerity?”, insisted the elected by the Left Bloc recalling that, according to the European Commission itself, the labor cost is only the fifth concern of small and medium European companies (SMC's).