Former Prime Minister José Manuel Durão Barroso joined the list of new State pensioners, receiving a monthly pension resulting from the duties he performed before moving on to international positions. According to the newspaper Correio da Manhã, the former head of Government requested retirement at the age of 69 and now earns 1,826.18 euros per month.
The same newspaper indicates that the request was formalized at Caixa Geral de Aposentações (CGA), where it is listed among next month’s retirees. The amount refers to the period in which he held political office in Portugal, without including other remuneration from abroad.
National retirement and political career
Durão Barroso chose not to apply for the lifetime grant associated with the time he held political positions in the State. This option comes despite having accumulated more than a decade of government and parliamentary experience before moving to international organizations.
The publication writes that the value now attributed by the CGA results from the calculation applied to the years of service as governor. Even before returning to Portugal, the former prime minister had renounced any additional benefits associated with the exercise of executive functions.
European income and trajectory after Lisbon
The publication adds that Durão Barroso receives, separately, a pension linked to the position of president of the European Commission, a role he held during two legislatures. This pension, according to the same source, is 7,000 euros per month and is completely independent of the one he now receives from the Portuguese State.
This means that, in total, the former prime minister will take home 8,826 euros every month, an amount that exceeds the salary of the current prime minister, set at 8,768.65 euros gross.
After leaving Brussels, Durão Barroso joined the international structure of a financial institution and assumed advisory positions linked to the health sector and scientific research, maintaining academic activity as a visiting professor.
Personal life and return to the country
He says that, after years of a mainly international career, the former ruler took up residence again in Portugal. The newspaper explains that, in 2023, he remarried in a ceremony held in the Algarve, currently maintaining professional activity in higher education, both in Portugal and abroad.
Also read:
