CONCERNING THE CPLP

Much has been said about the need to ensure the mobility of human resources within the framework of the CPLP – Community of Portuguese Language Countries. This is a laudable goal, but one that will imply suitable coordination between the different CPLP member countries and the respective areas of integration in which they are located. While Portugal has made commitments within the EU framework, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau belong to ECOWAS, São Tomé and Principe participates in the ECCAS, Angola and Mozambique in the SADC and Brazil in Mercosur, whereby it would not appear to be that simple to achieve, in a short space of time, such an aim.
But it would be possible to start this process by focusing on the creation of a Portuguese Language Union of Science and Culture (PLUSC), which would be an important first step in this direction. A construction project for a PLUSC would not, in principle, come across any great resistance in terms of the different areas of integration, guaranteeing the free movement of professors and university students, as well as researchers, throughout all CPLP countries. This is a contribution to the development of the Portuguese language scientific and cultural community that would in no way affect the security of the regions in which the different CPLP countries are located.
In life it is better to start with the possible than to promise the impossible, bringing about frustrations and, of course, radicalising misunderstandings in the long term.
This is a gradualist approach, which reformists, such as the author of this text, like so much, and which are so criticised by supporters of successive break ups that, as a rule, lead to the abyss.
A modest project in its goals?
No, quite the opposite, an ambitious project, but one that seeks to be realistic.
Nothing more, nothing less...