https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/turnaround-portuguese-economy-two-decades-structural-changes https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/turnaround-portuguese-economy... "Bu

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/turnaround-portuguese-economy-two-decades-structural-changes https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/turnaround-portuguese-economy... "Business investment is growing again above the EU average. A strong pipeline of EU co-funded investment projects for the next four years is expected to provide an additional boost to investment. " https://www.rosalux.eu/es/article/1585.the-economic-evolution-of-portugal.html https://www.rosalux.eu/es/article/1585.the-economic-evolutio... " Economic policy was also bolstered by a set of favourable circumstances, including the external depreciation of the euro, the relatively low price of oil, economic growth in the country’s main export destinations, Portugal’s ascent as a tourist destination (partly as a result of the political turmoil and instability in the Middle East) and the ECB’s accommodative monetary policy stance (which helped significantly reduce interest rates and minimise public interest outlay" https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/portugals-economic-recovery-how-much-came-from-ditching-austerity/ https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/portugals-econom... "Gomes also pointed out that the biggest boost Portugal received from Europe’s recovery came via exports, with the continent taking up 75% of the country’s exports of goods and services. " I can link stuff all day here. Increases in quality of education, massive rises in investment, Lisbon has become (again) a world class capital, and if anything, Portugal is overheated from their EU membership. I can never get over Portugal being included in this list and it immediately disqualifies for me all subsequent criticism of the EU as badly misguided. I don’t know the other countries on the list nearly as well, my experience with Portugal makes me suspect the entire anti EU argument is a argument in search of data instead of being based on data.