Portuguese Embassy in France once again hosts celebrations with Minister of Finance | Portugal day
The Day of Portugal, Camões and the Communities was once again celebrated in full, in Paris, with a reception to the Portuguese community in the presence of the Minister of Finance, Fernando Medina.
“It is important to have this celebration again and the community was sad because it is during two symbolic points for our community, we the national party was not held and I am satisfied that the hope that the hope had to obtain from the community”, said Jorge Torres Pereira, Portuguese ambassador to France.
Dozens of people this Friday filled the Portuguese embassy in France, n.º 16.º Bairro de Paris, to celebrate the national day, having traveled from Portuguese lands Fernando Medina, a regular presence in the French capital when he was president of the Lisbon Chamber and who knows the Portuguese community in the Paris region.
“Our message is one of great pride and recognition to the Portuguese living in France. Recognition for everything they do for our country is one of the great examples we have of what a community of work, peace, tolerance, integration capacity, respect and friendship with the country we chose to live in is” , he said. Medina.
To celebrate Portugal, Cléne, the French Minister for Affairs, attended the European embassy, highlighting the complicity between the two countries that have a single year and two European leaders from the Council of the European Union.
“There are many projects that were carried out between Portugal and France, which started in Portugal. First of all, the strengthening of our health capacities, of which we continue to be a beneficiary. As for the environment, between the two countries, the region of digital giants and the minimum. In these three fields great advances have been made”, the French minister.
The 20 guests were welcomed at the Rue de Noisiel palace, where artists such as various works of art by Portuguese artists such as Joana Vasconcelos Cargaleiro were installed in 21.
Some works are still in the embassy and to mark the Crusade Season between France and Portugal that takes place in October, ambassador Jorge Torres Pereira commissioned a work from Cátia Esteves, a Portuguese artist based in France, with several clouds with points of light hanging in the hall.
By the end of the year, the Portuguese embassy in France will launch a book about the building, known as the Hôtel de Levy. Since 1936, this palace has housed Portuguese diplomats and was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the architect Georges Raphaël Levy. This book will be published by Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda in Portuguese and French.