“The Ministry of Finance and the Portuguese government in general … have been monitoring the issue of Brexit and so we have been involved in all the work that has been done at government level on issues of contingency” so that the public “may rest assured”, the secretary of state, Ricardo Mourinho Félix, told journalists in Brussels.
Speaking on his way out of a Eurogroup meeting, the secretary of state stressed that everyone involved is working towards reaching “a Brexit solution that is cooperative, and so that it is not necessary to activate any contingency plans”, but confirmed that these existed at both national and EU level.
“We are looking at a set of issues in the economic and financial area, obviously, where it is necessary to understand where there will indeed be a Brexit that is not cooperative [and] how a set of issues can be resolved that I would not now like to detail nor address now,” he said.