"Portugal is on a knife´s edge - playing with fire" - Helena Garrido

Balancing act on the Knife´s Edge

HELENA GARRIDO: 

"Portugal is on a knife´s edge 

The Government is playing with fire. 

Knowing very well that Brussels would not accept 
those public accounts, 

the 'socialist-marxist-leninist unelected' government 
of António Costa 

still insisted in submitting it. 

The government received a slap on the wrist, 

in the form of a letter from the European Commission, 

asking for explanations and contains veiled threats of sanctions. 

António Costa knows very well that he will have to give in to Brussels. 

But then why is Costa playing this game?"