Portugal: Unemployment as the New ‘Thang’ · Global Voices
Sara Moreira

Portuguese Minister of Economy Álvaro Santos Pereira‘s speech on the Parliament today, May 18, has become a national joke [pt], with the hashtag #Coiso (slang for “thing”) trending on Twitter. The minister stated [pt] that “we all must to work together – unions, employers and parties so that we can overcome this ‘thang'”, referring to the high unemployment rates in the country.