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PRR and the insistence on the wrong discussion

Expresso3 September 2026 at 22:57

Portugal's PRR (Recovery and Resilience Plan) has reached 100% execution. The article addresses the issue that, once again, public discussion focuses on the financial execution of the plan rather than evaluating its actual objectives and impacts.

The author criticizes that the emphasis should be on the results achieved and not just on execution numbers. The suggestion is that the focus should shift to verify whether the plan met its established goals and what effective changes it brought to the country.

The article presents this situation as a recurring pattern in Portugal, where the discussion on execution dominates public debate, diverting attention from the substantive results that should be evaluated.

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