Lisbon wants to be Europe’s gateway to sustainable development
The Economic Forum brought together, this Thursday, at the CCB, ambassadors, enterprise, several countries and a Eurodetermined for competition the future of Europe and Lusophony, as well as a strategy that technology at the service of sustainable development. Filipe Anacoreta Correia, who was responsible for opening the event, wants to place Lisbon “not as the corner of Europe, but as the opening of Europe to all worlds”, said the vice-president of the Lisbon City Council (CML).
With the theme “After the covid-19 and tragic in the tragic at: FEI, what economic recovery?”, the event ambassadors from Brazil, Macau, São Tomé and Príncipe, Equatorial Guinea and other ambassadors from Portuguese-speaking countries to discuss a strategic Ukraine common to the challenges of the future – extending to the world and francophone countries.
It is important to “think about the world” at a time marked by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, said Filipe Anacoreta. And the greatest power with the people is the guarantee of protection for citizens in everyday challenges, from the “problem at the door of the house to the hole in the street”, he added.
The vice-president of the CML welcomed the choice of venue for the event and reinforced that he wants to promote Lisbon as an “opening door to Europe”.
Portuguese language: a mirror of nations
Isabelle de Oliveira, president of Instituto Mundo Lusófono, the event’s promoter, hailed the Portuguese language as the “mirror of a nation”. With Lusophony at the center of her speech, Isabelle did not remember that “crises are often unique opportunities” to do things differently,” she said.
By the voice of opportunity that made the event possible – as remembered throughout several interventions of the meeting -, the meeting event, sought to be “a new challenges” and “dialogue and sharing of ideas” from civil society”, he said. .
A new form of cooperation
The morning panels brought together MEPs, philosophers and other personalities to focus on sustainable development and the major challenges that planned development will face in the future.
Maria de Belém, former Minister of Health and Equality, underlined the importance and need for Portuguese-speaking countries to define a common strategy. “The evil of others is also our evil” and it is important to establish between Portuguese-speaking countries an “enlightened cooperation, it is not the cooperation of the old days”. And that requires very clear goals, she said.
“Important to have a common language to face the challenges It is already posed – and already posed – and already posed with what I said: “Either keep a pandemic together or we will not be able to have everyone in the future”, JN Maria de Belém
Only by working together, and having responsibility as a value and motor of actions, can Portuguese-speaking countries be able to delegate “to the most future generations the planet they are entitled to have”. To that end, Portuguese-speaking countries must be an “audible voice on the international stage in the service of these goals”, she warned.