CPLP Entrepreneurs criticize Portugal for not having a reciprocal agreement
“ANDthere is still a lot of work to be done at the government level so that the implementation [da mobilidade] be effective”read in a statement sent to the general meeting of this entity, in which it is stated that Portugal, in particular, should accelerate the exercises.
“The examples of countries, despite recognizing as regional specificities for the entry of foreign citizens into their own, maintain that for CPLP countries in Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PALOP) countries find it easier compared to the entry of PALOP citizens in countries such as Portugal, for example, not having the desired reciprocity”read in the press release.
Entrepreneurs in the Portuguese-speaking world recognize the efforts of governments “have been facing business difficulties regarding the appearance of entry to the Republic of Portugal in particular, as well as their intentions to interact and do business with this CPLP country”written in the communiqué.
At the meeting on the 13th, which elected Jorge Pais as interim secretary-general of the organization that represents Portuguese-speaking entrepreneurs, the CE-CPLP warned that “despite the advance of the date when the agreement was signed with the CPLP in July 2021 at the Summit of Heads of State and Government of the CPLP in Luanda with a view to its beginning in January 2022, the implementation continues to leave a wish , not satisfying the intentions of the CPLP projects and in particular the PALOP”.
The agreement defines that mobility in the CPLP covers holders of diplomatic, official, special and service passports and ordinary passports.
The issue of circulation facilitation has been debated in the CPLP for about two decades, but it had a greater impetus with a more concrete one presented by Portugal at the Brasilia summit, in 2016, and became the priority of Brasilia’s rotating proposal. Cape Verde, from 2018 to 2021.
The mobility agreement has already been ratified by Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, Mozambique, Timor-Leste and São Tomé and Príncipe. The process is confirmed in Angola – where parliament has already been approved – and Equatorial Guinea.
In addition to the mobility issue, the EC-CPLP also announced that it had filled the vacancies in Equatorial Guinea, with the entry of FUNCEX and the Equatorial Guinea Business Consortium, respectively.
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe and Timor-Leste are the nine Member States of the CPLP.
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