40 anni di Spagna e Portogallo nell’UE: una storia di successo

I can’t speak for Spain, as I don’t have experience there.

However, for Portugal, sure, it’s been a success for Portuguese cleptocrats and corruption to be in the EU where they have access to EU funds that they can scam. I haven’t seen a single EU project in Portugal not be a scam. E.g. The Hotel School in Porto has 85% of it’s costs covered by EU projects for an English language Culinary Arts program, but the chefs on the program can’t speak English, and so it’s just given in Portuguese despite taking EU money for an English program. So, sure it’s been nice for the Portuguese to have a source of free money, and all they have to do is on paper say they are following EU rules. Of course they don’t follow them, but then who cares as long as they say they are.