"I’d like to ask the Portuguese to look at Greece and think of what is happening in Greece, because it was exactly this that could be happening in Portugal, if it wasn’t, if it hadn’t been the determination of the Portuguese government, which I want to praise", he said on Thursday.


At a book launch in Lisbon, Durão Barroso said Greece had entered a “terrible situation” because of “political decisions”, when “the economic recovery began” and that it was “completely unfair” to blame the creditor institutions.