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Jobless in Portugal

'[In] Portugal we have to live under the rules dictated by this enormously powerful troika, making us bow to a global financial system that is unscrupulous and completely heartless and that forces us to surrender our country to that pack of vultures that are the large banks.'

Marina Oliveira, a 26-year-old psychologist who hasbeen unemployed for the past 13 months

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