Background
Medina Carreira was born in Bissau, in what was then the Portuguese overseas territory of Guinea, in 1931. His father was a historian whose hometown was Ilha do Fogo, also in Portuguese Africa.
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«Olhos nos Olhos» é uma reflexão lúcida e porventura incómoda sobre o Portugal de hoje e o Portugal de amanhã, com incursões certeiras pelo passado para melhor decifrar o presente. As perguntas diretas e claras de Judite Sousa e as respostas frontais e desassombradas de Henrique Medina Carreira, num debate a que se juntam outros protagonistas da nossa vida pública, deixam-nos as coordenadas certas para melhor interpretarmos a realidade portuguesa, com os seus desafios, os seus dilemas e as suas opções fundamentais. As finanças públicas, a economia, o Estado social, a demografia, o declínio do Ocidente, a crise do euro, a troika e o sistema político são alguns dos assuntos aqui analisados que nos interpelam sobre o nosso desenvolvimento como sociedade e como nação. Inspirado no programa da TVI 24 com o mesmo nome, «Olhos nos Olhos» é um livro indispensável para compreender Portugal neste momento particularmente delicado da História e para perspectivar o seu futuro. Olhos nos Olhos de Henrique Medina Carreira , Judite Sousa
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Medina Carreira was born in Bissau, in what was then the Portuguese overseas territory of Guinea, in 1931. His father was a historian whose hometown was Ilha do Fogo, also in Portuguese Africa.
Medina Carreira went to Lisbon where he studied at the Pupilos do Exército military school and obtained a degree in mechanical engineering which in turn allowed him to work at Companhia União Fabril conglomerate"s steelworks. He received a degree in law from the University of Lisbon in 1962 and studied economics at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão/Technical University of Lisbon, but did not graduate.
After the Carnation Revolution in 1975 Pinheiro de Azevedo called him to the Sixth Provisional Government as Undersecretary of State for the Budget, a position he left shortly afterwards to take over the functions of the Minister of Finance in the Primeiro Governo Constitucional (the first cabinet after the Carnation Revolution). In 1978 he resigned from all his duties in the Portuguese Socialist Party. He left in disagreement on the economic policy adopted by the ruling party.
He has worked extensively as a lawyer, business consultant and university professor, and has become well known due to the commentaries and opinions he posted in the Portuguese media (like in Signal, Image, Communications Notícias television show Plano Inclinado hosted by Mário Crespo) warning about the risk of collapse of the Portuguese public finances – an event that would happen in 2011 in the 2010-2012 Portuguese financial crisis.
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