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- Abstract:
- This article analyzes Portugal’s path to European integration by describing the economic policy of the country from 1947 onward; it argues that this policy of state intervention and commercial openness followed the same patterns as those found in other Western European countries even before the revolution of 1974 and accession to the EEC. A backward and dictatorial country emulated the economic policy of democratic and developed countries so that, when it joined the EEC, most trade barriers had already been dismantled. Portugal’s experience sheds light on European integration outside the core group of industrialized European countries and beyond the EEC/EU experience.
- Este artigo analisa o caminho português na integração europeia e descreve a política económica do país a partir de 1947. Argumenta-se que esta política de intervenção estatal e abertura comercial foi coerente com os padrões de outros países da Europa Ocidental, inclusive antes da revoluçao de 1974 e da adesão à CEE. Um país retrógrado e ditatorial emulou a política económica de países democráticos e desenvolvidos para que, ao fazer parte da CEE, a maioria das barreiras comercias já tinham sido desmontadas. A experiência portuguesa lança luz sobre a história da integração europeia, para além da história do núcleo central dos países mais industrializados, fundadores das Comunidades Europeias.
Citation
Coppolaro, Lucia, and Lains, Pedro,
"Portugal and European Integration, 1947-1992: an Essay on Protected Openness in the European Periphery"
(2013).
e-Journal of Portuguese History.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/j416-6r23
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e-Journal of Portuguese History
...The e-Journal of Portuguese History (e-JPH) (ISSN: 1645-6432) is an international peer-reviewed scholarly journal with the objective of providing publication of work on historical subjects, especially those concerning themes and topics of Portuguese history analyzed in a comparative perspective. It …