1 of 1 President Lula and First Lady Janja da Silva landed in Lisbon this Friday morning — Photo: Ricardo Stuckert/Presidency of the Republic President Lula and First Lady Janja da Silva landed in Lisbon this Friday morning — Photo: Ricardo Stuckert/ presidency of the republic
President Lula landed in Lisbon this Friday morning (21) for a sixday agenda of meetings in Portugal and also in Spain. The themes in the PT’s script include the war in Ukraine and the agreement between Mercosur and the European Union.
Itamaraty shared that the President’s trip to Portugal and Spain was “related to the revitalization of relations with Europe and the world.”
Lula is scheduled to return to the continent in early May, where he will attend the coronation of King Charles III. will attend and meet with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Check out Lula’s agenda for the next few days below.
Schedule in Portugal
- Friday (21): expected arrival in Lisbon.
- Saturday (22): attends a welcoming ceremony with Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and lays flowers at the tomb of poet Luís de Camões at Jerônimos Monastery in Belém. He has lunch with Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa and attends the meeting of the 13th BrazilPortugal Summit, a bilateral summit that resumed after seven years. The two governments will sign at least 13 documents, including an agreement on the equivalence of primary and secondary school diplomas and another on the recognition of driver’s licenses.
- Sunday (23): no official commitments are foreseen.
- Monday (24): Travel to the city of Matosinhos in the Porto region for the opening of the PortugalBrazil Business Forum. Lula could make the journey on a KC390, a military freighter manufactured by Embraer to help sell the plane. He returns to Lisbon to present the Camões Prize to Chico Buarque.
- Tuesday (25): Lula is honored at a solemn session of the Assembly of the Portuguese Republic.
Schedule in Spain
- Tuesday (25): travels to Madrid to attend an economic forum. There is a possibility of meeting with the Spanish King Felipe VI.
- Wednesday (26): The final commitment of the trip was to be a meeting with the country’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, followed by a signing ceremony of the agreement.
MercosurEU Agreement
Brazil and Spain are keen to resolve the deadlocks delaying the implementation of the MercosurEuropean Union trade deal as the two countries take over leadership of the two blocs later this year.
Bolsonaro’s environmental policies, which led to high levels of deforestation, made negotiations difficult.
The MercosurEuropean Agreement has been negotiated since 1999. Twenty years after the talks began, in 2019, the blocs concluded trade negotiations and a year later the socalled political and cooperative aspects. Since then, the agreement has been reviewed.