Portugal and Spain celebrate bilateral cooperation 500 years circumnavigation – Observer
Portugal and Spain celebrate this Thursday in Seville a bilateral cooperation between two countries at different levels, from cross-border territories to European territory, and whose bases were laid 500 years ago, in the circumnavigation voyage.
The first voyage to circumnavigate the Earth was a joint Portuguese-Spanish façade, which “accelerated the exchange of people, goods, ideas and values” and launched, “in this way, the foundations of a globalization” that continues “to place challenges of a different nature”, in addition to having consolidated “the European and Atlantic vocation of both”, countries “launching the foundations of bilateral cooperation”, reads a joint statement by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Portugal and Spain signed this Thursday. fair in Seville.
The same text the Common Strategy for Cross-border Development signed in 2020, “which elevated the relationship” between Portugal and Spain “and cross-border cooperation to a new level”.
At the European level, Portugal and Spain highlight the “to work in a common coordinated way to articulate their positions in the European Union and defend their common interestsIbero to the respective condition of peripheral countries, of Iberian Ter-American designation, and in the face of the challenges chosen by the interconnections”.
The recognition of the energy uniqueness of the Iberian Peninsula, in the context of the energy price crisis that hits Europe, as a result of Ukraine, is a shared success that should encourage us to continue working on the reform of the European energy market”, reads in the same text.
The second half of 2023, which presents the second half of the continuation of the Portuguese Presidency, in the first half of 2012, and which “it will be a unique opportunity to put Portuguese-Spanish cooperation at the service of Europe and Europeans”.
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The Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs, João Gomes Cravinho, expressed, at a joint press conference with his Spanish counterpart, José Manuel Albares, “such confidence and charm in the firm” Spanish, both “in the internal EU level”, “to take fundamental” that they need to have strong momentumas is the case of the “energy dossier”, as it does not respect external relations.
In this context, reference is made to the “Mediterranean and Ibero-American vocation Portugal and Spain share” and which “will surely also have a strong impact on the European Union’s external relations in 2023, as a result of the Spanish leadership” of the Council of the European Union.
ONE first round the world ended this Thursday 500 years in Seville in navigation, proved after three years of navigation, the first time, in an expedition that is commanded and after three years of expedition, by the Portuguese, after his death in the Philippines, by the Spanish after Juan Sebastián Elcano.
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The closing of the celebrations of the 5th centenary of the first round the world counts this Thursday with the presence in Seville of the Spanish King, Felipe VI, and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Portugal and Spain.
Cravinho highlighted a few years ago that three ambitious countries began a year trip “three-year program” that exceeded expectations, with “hundreds and two ambitious countries as actions and initiatives” in Portugal but also in “dozens of countries around the world” , despite the pandemic, which coincided with “two of the three years celebrations”.
Regarding the future, the two ministers, as written in the joint declaration, reaffirmed their commitment of Portugal and Spain to inscribe Magellan and Elcano’s voyage in UNESCO’s Memory of the World (the United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization).
In addition, the first trip around the world is “inspiring” to develop “new activities, more activities, with the same kind of common approach”, said Gomes Cravinho.
The experience of the commemorations sparked a thirst for knowledge”, as did the circumnavigation voyage of 500 years ago, and it is made that at the next Portuguese-Spanish summit, in October, “there is a reflection” on this “joint experience” and the way of project into the future, he added.
The closing of the commemorations of the 500th anniversary of the circumnavigation voyage today in Seville also includes the presentation of the book “Spain and Portugal in globalization. 500 years since the first circumnavigation”, a co-authorship of CEI-ISCTE (Iscte International Center — Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) and the Real Instituto Elcano, which has collaborators of more than 30 researchers from both countries.