Portugal Wants to Shrink the EU
Portugal Wants to Shrink the EU Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa CARLOS COSTA/AFP via Getty Images Portugal Wants to Shrink the EU The EU is ‘not for everyone.’ Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa set out his vision for a more unified Europe in a speech at the Catholic University of Portugal, in Lisbon, on November 23. Costa wants a Europe of shared values. His solution? Shrink the European Union. “We have to ask ourselves … whether we should look at the EU in a spirit of greater flexibility, assuming that, just as Schengen or the euro is not for everyone, we have to have v...