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The Secretary of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Deputy Secretary of State explained this Wednesday that the offer of digital subscriptions for secondary school students is for general and economic titles and that the offer for adults can be for any medium.

Carlos Abreu Amorim spoke at the Digital Business Breakfast about "Media Literacy & Public Policies in Portugal", organized by APDC - Portuguese Association for the Development of Communications, in partnership with Google, at the association's headquarters in Lisbon.

"As strange as it may seem, there has never been a public policy, let's say, strategically dimensioned for social communication in Portugal", said the minister, referring to the Action Plan for Social Communication presented in October.

"This is the first, therefore, I can say that this is the best plan that has existed in Portugal because it is the only one", he stressed.

Carlos Abreu Amorim said that the digital subscription offer from a media outlet for young people aged 15 to 18 is for "generalist and economic" titles.

The offer period "is two years and, therefore, will be operationalized digitally through AMA [Administrative Modernization Agency]", which is under the supervision of Minister Margarida Balseiro Lopes, and in collaboration with the Ministry of Education.

"We will have a measure, this one for adults, over 18 years old, in which we will pay 50% of digital subscriptions to any media outlet, including local and regional ones, that is, of all genres, there is no longer any limitation", added Carlos Abreu Amorim.

"We want our media literacy policy to be a fundamental instrument in the adaptation, in the perpetual and constant desire to adapt to the dizzying changes that we are experiencing today, but consolidating the same principles as always, which were the principles that built democracy, the Rule of Law and the protection of Human Rights in the world in which we live", he concluded.