A very special visit by the Grand Dukes of Luxembourg to Lisbon | Opinion
The Grand Duke Henrique of Luxembourg considers himself a Portuguese descendant, in the lineage of D. Miguel and the marriage of his daughter Maria Ana de Bragança with the Grand Duke Guilherme IV. He said it at the gala dinner offered to the Dukes on Thursday by President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Palácio da Ajuda. More than an extraordinary statement for his humility, it means above all recognition of the importance of the Portuguese community in Luxembourg and gratitude for the reception that the royal family had in Portugal when it went to World War II.
The truth is that, despite everything, Portuguese society is very important for a country in general and the press has long to understand this fact and give compost to the country that means so much that such a significant visit is so significant, patent in a community entourage of around ministers of space event studies, various individuals and space studies studies, Portugal’s choice to cooperate in fields such as tourism, digital economy and green finance, entrepreneurship or sustainable construction.
The representative delegation that accompanied the Grand Dukes for three days has another relevant significance, which marks a turning point in the relationship between the two countries. that a luxury elite began the politics of Portugal as a modern country captured and an image altered by the country emigration attracts, seeing as an attractive, attractive, welcoming country, full of opportunities for bilateral relationship. In fact, it is clear that there are more and more Luxembourgers who invest, visit and settle in our country. The fact that planes between Luxembourg and Portuguese airports are almost always full is proof of this growing interest.
This new reality is very important because it will also help to have a more positive and constructive perception in the way Luxembourgers look at the most important of all foreign communities in Luxembourg, which in some aspects still have a life attached to traditions, but which also plays a very important role in all sectors of society, particularly through the Portuguese descendants, who are in administration, political life, diplomacy, economy, finance, services, the technological sector, culture, an example in this specific case of Luxembourg having been from Venice for the last Portuguese-descendant biennial Marco Godinho.
In politics, in politics now in all cities there are also no lists of Portuguese or Portuguese descendants candidates in which everyone knows that the parties lose electoral advantage, the municipalities that have more than 230 or even do not have. 40 percent of its population is of Portuguese origin.
It is for this extraordinary presence in the Grand Duchy that it needs to be known and valued by more of the institutions, not just to give to all the potential that it only represents and that now clearly Luxembourg is much more available to recognize. Hence, they also insist that the Portuguese participate more, much more, in the civic and political life of the country.
Not recognizing it is a profound mistake and represents a form of lack of interest in the Portuguese community in Luxembourg, which harms and does not serve the interests and objectives of deepening relations between the two countries.
These steps are now being taken by Luxembourg in a relatively short time. Missing Portugal corresponds to the height.
The author writes according to the new orthographic agreement