Portugal says more than two per cent of its population has emigrated in the past two years since the country entered the worst recession in decades. A secretary of state said most of the emigrants were young and highly-educated people who’d found jobs in Switzerland and Portugal’s oil-rich former colony Angola. He said the outflow of people would have been even greater if job prospects had been better in other EU countries, many of which have high unemployment.
葡萄牙称由于本国陷入几十年来最严重的衰退，过去两年已有2%以上的人口移民。国务大臣称大多数移民者是年轻人和受过高等教育的人，他们已在瑞士和葡萄牙的原殖民地―石油国家安哥拉找到了工作。他说如果欧洲其他国家的就业前景更好的话，这种人口外流现象会更严重，而这些国家的失业率大都已很高。
