“Timid steps”, “compassionate with human rights abuses” and “on the path to irrelevance”: what future for the CPLP?

At a summit in which Equatorial Guinea was once again a postponed 'irritant', the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries committed itself to promoting the mobility of young people. But the reality in the Member States points in the opposite direction: youth, the “great potential” of the Portuguese-speaking community, “are not cared for”. An academic heard by Expresso also points out the “passivity” of the CPLP and the lack of “political will…