Spain and Portugal: rivals in crisis (part one)
Ben Lewis
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This article was included in our first printed edition, published in June.
Iberia. It’s not a word to be uttered lightly. Even after 350 years, the spectre of the “captivity” – a sixty-year period of Spanish rule – still lingers over Portugal.
As recently as the First World War, the fear of reintegration was a central part of Portuguese politics and culture.
This threat is gone for now at least, but the rivalry between Spain and Portugal is undiminished. Th
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