Celebrations of 200 years of security in Brazil should help strengthen relations with Portugal and Europe — DNOTICIAS.PT
The counselor at the Permanent Representation of Portugal to the European Union Bernardo Ivo defended, this Thursday, that the second actions of the bicentennial of the commemoration of Brazil should serve to serve as a “country with Portugal, CPLP and Europe”.
For the diplomat and academic, the celebrations should “serve as an engine for a deeper relationship” between the country, not only with Portugal, but also with the Communities of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) and the European Union, since the dates “helps focus attention and will”.
Bernardo Ivo Cruz will be one of the Portuguese speakers in the first of a cycle of debates of the Brazil-Europe Integration Forum — FIBE will hold in the world, precisely, of the commemorations of the bicentennial, which is celebrated on September 7th of this year.
With the motto “Independence and Integration”, debates will be attended by historians and accountants from different areas, Brazilians and specialists and specialists, from the rescue of the rescue and the objective of understanding History, “identifying proposals for the challenges posed by the pandemic” and in a nation that is integrated and integrated.
In his speech, the diplomat will essentially talk about the relationship between Brazil Portugal and Europe in the 21st century, namely within the framework of the European Union/Mercosur, which has been under negotiation for 20 years, with a text already agreed in 2020.
The agreement is still unclear as to why there is a “great European concern” with “environmental issues, in particular the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, and the impact that this may have on climate change” but also because there is a “more realistic concern ” ” with the fact that Mercosur has “a very respectable, capable, powerful, organized and professional capacity in the agribusiness sector”, while “on the European side there is a much more powerful economy in industry and services”, which creates resistance and receipt from part to part.
In order to find this platform, it is necessary to look beyond the agreement, to the other common interests between the European Union and Latin America, that is, as two parties, it should not continue only “focused on this aspect” of trade.
As two regions “to step out of the shadow of the difficulties of the agreement, to look at a broader framework of relationship”, for aspects such as development, combating the pandemic, economic growth and social development, or even to combat change climate and “dealing with matters apart from an agreement”, which “is important but not everything”, he underlined.
As for “Portugal must contribute to finding this platform of interests, as well as Spain. This, even through the Ibero-American Organization and, in the case of Portugal, even within the CPLP [Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa]organization of which it is a member state such as Brazil”, he defended.
Bernardo Ivo Cruz carried out the command of Brazil “from Lula da Silva at a distance” from Portugal, but in the current scenario Portugal “may have a more interesting role to play, as it is the only CPLP and EU member state, having a platform on which to work on the common interests of Portuguese-speaking countries and those of the European Union”.
“CPLP is very important and fundamental to relaunch and deepen relations between the European Union and the Portuguese-speaking world”, he stressed.