“…In fact, the Permanent Council for Social Dialogue, a body created specifically for the promotion of social dialogue, had a late appearance only in the 1980s. Among the initial concerns were the constraints imposed by a fragile economy and the Portuguese integration into the EEC (Natali & Pochet, 2009;Cerdeira, 2004). Nevertheless, social dialogue has been reasonably dynamic, both by the quantity and also the quality of topics discussed and agreements negotiated.…”