Portugal faces large-scale structural problems and growing and heightened inequality and injustice in the distribution of the wealth created. A situation in which the lives of workers and large sectors of the population experience more difficulties while a handful of people concentrate profits like never before. It cannot continue like this; the situation of workers and people and the future of the country demand a response.

Mr Chairman, Ladies and gentlemen, Housing is a condition for living. It is something that each one of us cannot do without – and that, to maintain it, we will make all the cuts, all the sacrifices, we will go through all the difficulties that are possible, up to the limit of deciding to give up our roof, our home. This is the situation in which thousands and thousands of people find themselves. Every day finding what they can cut to survive.

Here we are, confident, determined, full of life and with a great joy to live, fight and make a change. The challenges we face are many, but they are not big enough to discourage us, on the contrary, each one of them gives us even more strength. We do not underestimate the difficulties, but here we are, firm, determined, with a great joy to live and fight. And so it is, to the annoyance of the champions and beneficiaries of right-wing policies. Those protagonists and beneficiaries, those happy and very comfortable with the current situation.

Sandra Pereira, member of the PCP in the European Parliament, participates in the People's Summit, taking place on the Campus of the ULB – Free University of Brussels, on July 17 and 18. The PCP’s MEP will participate in the panel on “New forms of dirty war: coups, lawfare, disinformation, sanctions and economic war”, which will take place on July 18, in Auditorium C of the ULB Campus.