European Treaty : a Portuguese success?

after the signing of the Lisbon Treaty, Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates faces the return of hard reality, writes Eduardo Damaso. "Jose Socrates on television for several hours a day, Portugal in the limelight, all this gives us a certain notoriety in Europe. However, we must not sooth ourselves with rosy illusions of governmental policy in this country, nor with the path chosen by European policy. Internally, Socrates will have to confront the problem of unemployment, economic downturn, as well as the incapacity of the judicial system to suppress the wave of violence currently taking place in the nightlife in Porto [four assassinations in four months] and in Lisbon. In Europe, the 'Portuguese success' trumpeted around the Treaty has not contributed in any decisive fashion to make the European project more democratic."

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