“Housing is, today, the most fragile social right”, according to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Paulo Rangel. The member of the Government has no doubt that the same sector is “the one that is in the greatest crisis”.
The statements were made this Monday morning, in the opening speech of the Global Innovation Coop Summit 2025, which is taking place in Torres Vedras. The objective is to promote a debate about cooperativism and how it can evolve to benefit more people and more areas of society.
Now, the Government looks at cooperativism “as an affirmation of civil society. An affirmation of the future”, explains Paulo Rangel. A “collaboration scheme that needs to be modernized, but has enormous potential”, reiterates. In this sense, “cooperative initiative has a unique role” in the progress of societies” on a global scale.
The minister emphasizes that the capacity for “intervention by public authorities” is lower than in the past. This is because “they have a global concentration factor that limits their ability to reach the most excluded areas”, highlights Paulo Rangel.
At the same time, private powers gain importance and depend, to a large extent, on factors such as digitalization, which means that they gain responsibility towards societies.