"Here in Lisbon, at least, there's much celebrating - we Portuguese love foreigners (we only hate the Portuguese, which is what keeps us together) and the prevailing sentiment is "the more the merrier".

As one of the poorest countries in the EU there's a lot of sympathy for the new members which are all as poor or poorer than us. So we get new "soak the rich" partners and, even if we have to compete with them, they're all great countries with rich cultures, all very different from eachother, and it will be great fun getting to know them."

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