&NewLine;<div class="wp-block-cover has-background-dim-40 has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background-dim" style="background-image:url(https://vivreauportugalconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/le-portugal-paiera-sa-dette-au-fmi.jpg)"><div class="wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow">&NewLine;<p class="has-text-align-center has-large-font-size">WHAT WILL CHANGE IN 2019 IN PORTUGAL</p>&NewLine;</div></div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Last October&comma; Parliament voted the <a href="https://vivreauportugalconsulting.com/le-portugal-presente-sont-budget-2019/">State budget plan for 2019</a>From the civil service to education and migration policy, here are just some of the measures expected this year&period;</strong></p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class="wp-block-heading">2019&comma; the&rsquo&semi;election year</h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This will be a pivotal year for Portuguese politics&period; 2019 will be marked by two important elections&period; The "European&comma; which will take place in May and determine the horizon 2023-2024&period; For the member states of the&rsquo&semi;European Union&comma; then the legislative elections&comma; which will take place in October&period; For Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa&comma; these legislative elections are his first as President of the Republic&period; But whatever the results&comma; he will continue in office until 2021&period; On the other hand, for Prime Minister António Costa, who is entering the last year of his mandate&comma; the stakes are quite different&period; </p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>If he leads his party in the polls <strong>the PS&period;&nbsp&semi;</strong>The polls, however, do not give him a parliamentary majority&period; This suggests that the "geringonça"&comma; current alliance with the other left-wing forces will be maintained&period; One thing is certain: the budget he and his government have drawn up for the coming year, and the measures that will flow from it, will have an impact on his political future&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Lower public deficit</h3>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>This is one of the main measures included in the <a href="https://vivreauportugalconsulting.com/le-portugal-vers-un-deficite-historiquement-bas-en-2019/">state budget&period;</a> As stated by Finance Minister Mario Centeno &colon; " <em>This is a budget that pursues the path of rigor and balance in public accounts.</em>&period; He wants to bring the public deficit down to 0&comma;2 &percnt; of GDP in 2019 &lpar;from 0&comma;7&percnt; in 2018&rpar;&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The lowest rate ever achieved in 43 years of democracy&period; This decline will be accompanied by economic growth forecast at 2&comma;2&percnt; in 2019&period; Against 2&comma;3&percnt; last year&period; and an unemployment rate that should continue to fall&comma; From 6&comma;9&percnt; in 2018 to 6&comma;3&percnt; this year&period; Public investment, meanwhile, will increase by 16&percnt;&period; 4&comma;1 billion&semi;euros will be devoted to funding new medical centers across the country and the construction of new railway lines&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Upgrading the civil service</h3>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Civil service salaries are set to rise by around 3&percnt; in 2019&comma; i.e. the biggest increase in public administration salaries in the last ten years&period; 50 million euros will be allocated to increasing civil servants' pay&period; For many of them&comma; however, this increase is nothing exceptional&period;&nbsp&semi;<em>"I'm a teacher and my husband works in the justice sector&period; over the last ten years our salaries have suffered successive falls&comma; for us this increase is simply a return to normality and decency&period;</em> "explains Gilda&comma; 58 years old&period; António Costa has also announced the recruitment of 1,000 new civil servants in 2019&comma; particularly in the areas of planning and digitization of public policies&period; In terms of pensions&comma; the 2019 budget abolishes the obligation for civil servants to retire at 70&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Education</h3>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The maximum tuition fee for higher education will rise in 2019 to a maximum of €856, i.e. €212 less than the current maximum of €856. <strong>1068€</strong>&period; Many academics feared&nbsp&semi;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://lepetitjournal.com/lisbonne/1500-boursiers-sur-la-sellette-244536" target="_blank">this measure</a>&nbsp&semi;which actually risks reducing the number of students eligible for a university scholarship&period; <strong>To compensate for this, the government has introduced free textbooks for students up to Terminale&period;</strong></p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Emigration&comma; Costa's hobbyhorse</h3>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Issues related to recent emigration were among the&nbsp&semi;first measures announced by the Prime Minister in August 2018&period; Who had stated that the 2019 budget would attempt to bring back to Portugal people who emigrated between 2011 and 2015&period; Notably through tax benefits&period; </p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Costa has kept his promise, and emigrants returning to Portugal between 2019 and 2020 will not be <a href="https://vivreauportugalconsulting.com/le-portugal-veut-faire-revenir-ses-exiles/">will pay only half the IRS&period;</a> This means income tax&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Taxpayers considered resident in Portugal between January 1, 2019 and December 31, 2020 will be eligible for this tax break, provided they have not been resident in Portugal for the last three years; </p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>With five months to go before the European elections, António Costa defends his budget&nbsp&semi;<em>"It's a good budget that follows the road we've traced so far&period; More growth&comma; more&&num;8217&semi;jobs and more&rsquo&semi;equality"&period;</em> He tweeted&period; Some of his measures are already being debated&period;</p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&lbrack;arm&lowbar;setup id&equals; "8&Prime&semi; hide&lowbar;title&equals; "false"&rsqb;&NewLine;
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