Augusto Santos Silva: Portugal is ready to welcome immigrants

... integrating immigrants. We had such a policy towards people coming from our nation’s colonies, like Angola, and toward those from Brazil. We had the same attitude toward Ukrainians and Romanians who arrived in the 1990s. There used to be a strong migration flow towards Portugal, and 10% of our population is composed of foreigners. Moreover, since we are traditionally people that migrate, we do not have any problems of xenophobia or hostility towards foreigners. That’s one of the reasons why we are proposing to ...