On 12 June 1985, on the occasion of the signing of the Treaty of Accession of Portugal to the European Economic Community (EEC) and to the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom), Mário Soares, Portuguese Prime Minister, outlines the role that Portugal intends to play in Community affairs.

On 13 June 1985, the Lisbon daily newspaper Diário de Notícias reports on the official ceremony, held in Lisbon the previous day, to mark the signing of Portugal’s Treaty of Accession to the European Communities.

On 9 July 1985, addressing the Assembly of the Republic (Portuguese Parliament) in Lisbon, Ernâni Rodrigues Lopes, Portuguese Finance Minister, outlines the economic benefits that Portugal will derive from its accession to the European Communities.

On 12 June 1985, in Lisbon, the representatives of the Member States of the European Communities sign Portugal’s Treaty of Accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom).

On 13 June 1985, the Portuguese daily newspaper Correio da Manhã devotes its front page to the signing, the previous day in Lisbon, of Portugal’s Treaty of Accession to the European Communities.

On 4 March 1988, in Caya, Badajoz, a group of children wave European flags to celebrate the symbolic unveiling of the new boundary post that replaces the former border checkpoint between Spain and Portugal.

On 4 March 1988, in Caya, Badajoz, the former Portuguese MP, António Cardoso e Cunha, Member of the European Commission responsible for fisheries policy, symbolically unveils the new boundary post which marks the border between Spain and Portugal.

On 12 June 2005, at the ceremony held at the Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon to mark the 20th anniversary of the signing of Spain and Portugal’s Treaties of Accession to the European Communities, Jorge Sampaio, President of the Portuguese Republic, delivers an address in which he emphasises the cultural significance of this accession for the Iberian Peninsula.

In June 2004, José Manuel Durão Barroso, Portuguese Prime Minister, is appointed by the Twenty-Five to succeed Romano Prodi as President of the European Commission.

‘German Chancellor Schroeder is proposing to establish a European government. A European government?! And which ministry would be earmarked for Portugal? Given our austerity and technical prowess, the Finance Ministry, no doubt.' The Portuguese cartoonist Luís Alfonso takes an ironic look at Portugal's economic and financial situation.