Hey girls and gents, Mr Prime Minister, expensive Luís, thanks for being in Paris immediately for this primary working assembly since your election.
And we can have a lunch with our groups which can permit us to debate many necessary topics for our two international locations and for Europe. Clearly, we’ve got busy European information. We have been collectively Monday night with our colleagues to arrange for the upcoming deadlines, and specifically the Council that we’ll have subsequent week, which should decide the strategic agenda of our Europe. And on this regard we should return to our priorities in geopolitical, strategic, navy, technological, financial phrases, a extra sovereign Europe, a Europe of decarbonization, a Europe which additionally protects its borders, which is aware of find out how to assist its allies, and which , additionally, builds stability for all of our compatriots. On this regard, within the European Parliament, evidently a steady and pro-European coalition, combining the reasonable proper of the European Individuals’s Get together, the social democrats and the centrist Renaissance household has been fashioned, which can guarantee this stability .
We will even have to return once more to the appointments which can accompany this agenda that I discussed simply now. And from safety and protection to industrial technological energy, to the values which underpin the European mannequin, I imagine I can say that there’s between us, between our two international locations, a profound convergence and a need to do issues collectively. We will even focus on worldwide points, Ukraine, the Center East, Africa, the place once more, our cooperation demonstrates the proximity of curiosity and worth between our two international locations. We will even be eager to return to the European Political Group which will likely be held on July 18 in Nice Britain at an necessary second for our Europe.
After which, this lunch will permit us to additionally focus on the bilateral agenda which unites our two international locations in a approach, I’d say, very distinctive in Europe as a result of we clearly have numerous cooperation on the financial degree, from the car to the factitious intelligence, by the pharmaceutical sector, in cultural and tutorial issues. We additionally be taught our languages. However this hyperlink is nourished by a big, full of life, revolutionary French neighborhood established in Portugal, and a Portuguese-descendant neighborhood residing in France, which is among the bases of our Republic, engaged in our financial, cultural, mental life, and which unites , I’d say, in a really singular approach, our two international locations.
And the fiftieth anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, which you lately celebrated, allowed us to see it absolutely. We paid tribute, I paid tribute with a message to the braveness of the Portuguese individuals, of their dedicated individuals. And it have to be mentioned, lots of those that had fled your nation or who additionally bought concerned have been in France, which additional sealed this distinctive story round a love of freedom, pro-European dedication and of this momentum of April 1974 which continues to encourage us. That is what I wished to say, expensive Luís, Mr Prime Minister, in welcoming you immediately to Paris with nice pleasure. I do know that this morning you visited a piece by one of many artists, VHILS, whom we love very a lot in France and who was additionally a kind of artists who accompanied Larger Paris. I had the chance to see his work following I got here to Lisbon a while in the past. And I need to let you know how, in any case, the hyperlinks which unite us are human hyperlinks, of reciprocal fascination and friendship, but additionally crucial hyperlinks for our Europe within the instances by which it lives, as a result of we’ve got values and a will that binds us. So thanks, Mr Prime Minister, expensive Luís, for being in Paris immediately. Welcome.
