THE IBERIAN PENINSULA, TERRITORIAL HOMOGENEITY AND EUROPE'S PERIPHERY

The Portuguese have a strong and established external certainty of their independence. This clarity of vision is obviously not present when looking inwards at understanding and conceptualising their own internal borders. Apart from that, an administrative, or even political, integration between Portugal and Spain would be clearly advantageous in terms of rationalisation of resources and immediate productivity on a global level. However, it would seriously harm the interests of the Portuguese, and is far from being debated in the Peninsula.