Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Portugal, the European Union and the crisis

2018; Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais; Issue: SI2018 Linguagem: Inglês

10.23906/ri2018.sia06

2183-0436

Teresa Sousa, Carlos Gaspar,

History, Culture, and Society

EnglishThe two crises – the national and the European crisis – changed the terms of reference of the strategic debate in Portugal and, for the first time since the Maastricht Treaty, there was again a domestic debate on Portuguese foreign policies. The Portuguese elites’ trust in the future of Europe (and in their own European future) was called into question. European integration had been seen as an irreversible project, the Euro was supposed to be immune to crisis and the European Union was represented as one of the crucial poles of the international system; however, the last years have shown a more complex reality. portuguesAs duas crises – a crise nacional e a crise europeia – mudaram os termos de referencia do debate estrategico em Portugal e, pela primeira vez desde o Tratado de Maastricht, voltou a haver um debate interno sobre as politicas externas portuguesas. A confianca das elites portuguesas no futuro da Europa (e no seu proprio futuro europeu) foi posta em causa. A integracao europeia era vista como um processo irreversivel, a moeda unica era suposta ser imune as crises e a Uniao Europeia era representada como um dos polos fundamentais do sistema internacional, mas os ultimos anos revelaram uma realidade mais complexa.