19 million euros: "Fado" (continued)

Today's DN of Funchal includes a 4-line news item regarding this week's EuroMillion lottery. This week's calculations: 19.5 million euros were wagered in Portugal on this week's lottery; the highest winning in Portugal was one third-place ticket paying 92,563.82 euros. Let's be generous and say that there were others who won lower-paying prizes (I honestly don't know how many levels of prizes there are), and that 100,000 euros came back "home". Final score: Portugal loses this round to the EuroMillion Lottery by 19.4 million euros...IN ONE WEEK!

As the late Illinois senator Everett Dirksen once said: "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money." Can anyone (including a country, especially a small, "poor" country like Portugal) continue to throw away 20 million euros every week without getting into "real money"?