European construction is not done only by economical means. Education is political. Higher education co-operation in the context of political and economic imperatives is promoting ever closer union. Europeanization of higher education means co-operation and co-ordination. As a public policy it should means: Public Good, Public Responsibility. But those principles are under the pressure of the new ideas of the pan-European network of academics: marketization, performativity, employability, competitiveness. Academic freedom is at stake. How does a country like Portugal deals with it? Regardless all the criticism, Portugal as Member State and as a nation that is within the globalization process cannot be away of the attempts to enlarge knowledge and professional skills to a larger number of the European population.