Marcelo says that Portugal is “the California of Europe” in digital and renewables – Observer
The President of the Republic of the presence considered this Saturday, in San Diego, that Portugal is the sector “the California of Europe and highlighted the growing number of Americans in tourism, referring to the fact that it also has costs.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa spoke to journalists during a meeting with Portuguese emigrants and Portuguese descendants in San Diego, California, the first point of a five-day visit to the West Coast of the United States of America.
Asked if Portugal can be considered a “California of Europe”, the head of state replied that his predecessor, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, said that “at the time it seemed a somewhat similar idea, when it was not a predecessor”.
According to Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Portugal is “the California of Europe in the digital and renewable energy sectors and “in the sense that there is a development of energy from home tourism”, but also the differences in demographic and economic terms.
The head of state who currently often meets on the streets of Cascais and Lisbon, coming from the north and south of the United States, from New York, California, Florida, visiting and Americans residing in Portugal. “Why? Because it’s safe, very calm, because the climate is magnificent, because it allows you to travel from here in Europe”, he said, concluding: “So this is actually changing”.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa stressed that this US presence in Portugal also “has costs”. “It has costs, it does. About catering, in housing, tailor-made cost, and alongside, in catering, setting prices, which allows all customers who have, the cost and measure, which allows all customers who have tailor-made costs and costs.
In this meeting with about descendants of two Portuguese, Diego and Luso, where he has not been a president in Portuguese for 33 years, Marcelo Rebeu to this community of Portuguese that started out as “great fishermen” and now “is in all sectors” , with people from the Azores, Madeira and Algarve. “I feel at home, we are here in Portugal. We are at the same time in the United States of America, but in Portugal. This house is a Portuguese house,” he exclaimed.
Introducing himself as a member of a family of emigrants, from his grandfather to his grandchildren, the President of the Republic spoke in Portuguese and English, revealing that he had never been to California: “I had to wait until I was 73 years old”.
“Maybe start teaching here in California after my mandate? I don’t know, I’ll think about it, here at least a few months”, arriving, reaching applause.