It is, says Cascão, Sudan's intentions that may instead cause the greatest long-term concern for Egypt.
Friends of the family have given numerous interviews testifying to his parents' long-term concern for him.
"It's a legitimate but short-term concern" for a company whose market share is still growing, he said.
"But it is a short-term concern for the market until we ultimately find out what the exact dollar amount is," he said.
The main near-term concern for Europe is ensuring Ukraine has the money to pay for gas to top up storage sites, which must be filled during the summer to operate the pipelines smoothly during peak winter demand.
With six Tests against Bangladesh and India in the subcontinent next year, and few candidates sticking their hands up in county cricket, it is both a short-term concern for England's selectors and a long-term problem for the director of cricket, Andrew Strauss.
But of longer-term concern for residents are the growing signs that the city's ambitious favela "pacification" program – which aims to seize back control of slums from drug traffickers – is unravelling as a result of persistent inequality, broken promises, organised crime and police violence.
The longer-term concern for West Country supporters will be whether their big, physical team can continue to play such admirably direct rugby for the next eight months, in the cloying conditions of winter, with the injuries that will inevitably take their toll.
