well vicky pryce is the chief economic advisor to the center for economics and business research and she joins us now in the city of thank you so much for joining us vicky so the whole european scenario hasn't been great in the past few years and portugal is almost an oasis in all of this it was in economic trouble like almost all the other eurozone countries are certainly in the south it seems to have recovered to see a center left government which seems to be able to stay in place what's it secret what happened when thinking about 40 years of course it was the 2nd country that went to get a bailout after greece and by that time which was early 2011 there was already some support mechanism had been set up there were funds available with greece they had to make it all up as they went along portugal was able to borrow quite a lot of money actually something like 73000000000 euros at the time it had a serious problem with its deficit at the time and what it had to do was abide by quite a lot of very strict conditions it did reasonably well it followed the rules it didn't fight against i

average thanks partly to a booming tourism industry where vicky pryce is the chief economic advisor to the center for economics and business research she says portugal is one of the success stories in europe following the financial crisis the financial crisis and everything that happened afterwards particularly of course the eurozone crisis. it did give rise to quite a lot of very extreme right wing parties doing quite well in the opinion polls and then of course quite well new lections but not predominantly so so the interesting things are we haven't had any of them really running the country yes of course you had a bit of that in hungary but if you look at the countries that went through bailouts we haven't really seen that tool so even in greece the right wing party hasn't done particularly well the vexed when we had a very left wing government for a while we had quite left wing governments we do actually right now assuming the party is results are going to be that way in spain and in portugal. thousands of people have rallied in paris against the new law the world wide an access to