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Resistance to the actors of the carnation revolution did not take long to develop. The ruling upper class, made up of business owners, representatives of the army and the church, did not want to give up without a fight. During the dictatorship, ruling family clans had worked with the political police to quell anti-salazar protests. After the carnation revolution, many of them fled to brazil and supported the military dictatorship there.
At the end of 1974, something happened that these clans must have feared. The mfa-led socialist government began to nationalize big industry, banks and insurance companies, large land owners were expropriated and part of their land was taken over by cooperatives. Workers who previously had no rights were enveloped in a thick cocoon of protective laws. In their award-winning documentary film viva portugal, film makers christiane gerhards, malte rauch and samuel schirmbeck describe how bank workers also supported the revolution after bank workers.
When we talk about white-collar crime, we inevitably come across public-private partnerships (ppp) in portugal, which are also particularly popular in germany. "the disastrous promises of being able to continue investing despite tight budgets are the main reason why many politicians get involved in ppp projects. The rude awakening usually comes much later, and there are hardly any public reports of the consequential costs or the difficulties and deficiencies that arise or the poor performance of the promised services, because hardly anyone sees through things. 240 and this is also the intention. As of 2010, there were 150 ppp projects in germany with an estimated volume of 20 billion.
These ppp projects play a crucial economic role in portugal. What is striking is the quasi-symbiotic relationship between private entrepreneurs and state officials - a relationship which, according to conservative estimates, has cost taxpayers at least 20 billion euros over the last ten years. . Ppp concessionaires, ie private companies, take on short-term obligations at most.
The medium and long terms, such as the maintenance, up keep and renewal of an installation, generally remain with the state, that is to say with the taxpayer...