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Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro greets French President Emmanuel Macron
After having been negotiating peace in Ukraine with Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron is in Portugal, in the first French state visit in 26 years. The French president appealed to the Union on decisive days for Europe.
Emmanuel Macron This Thursday arrived in Portugal and soon highlighted “the friendship between France and Portugal” and the “common attachment” of both countries to Europa.
It is precisely Europe that most concerns the French president right now. In Lisbon, Macron appealed that Europeans must be more united than ever.
“We must absolutely make very deep choices for a Europe that is more united and stronger in technological, industrial and defense matters,” he said, speaking in the Assembly of the Republic.
The French head of state said Friday’s meeting between the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the American homologous Donald Trump It will be very important for Europe.
“Ukraine is, for us, an important combat, it is a fight for international law, sovereignty, and then is a combat for the safety of Europeans,” he said.
Macron also pointed out “the importance that the transnatlantic connection may have” not only for Europeans, but also to Americans, reiterating that he said that on Monday.
Emmanuel Macron was the first leader of the European Union to visit the United States of America since Trump’s inauguration, at a time when Washington and Moscow began and a possible peace agreement – at meetings that excluded the European Union and the country.
This Thursday, it was the turn of the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer Go to the meeting of Trump, having done him.
Montenegro applauds diplomatic qualities
On the sidelines of the witness ceremony from Portugal to France of the United Nations Conference on Oceans, Luís Montenegro He applauded Macron “by posture and work” in the international context so that there can be a peace process “in Ukraine, with Ukraine and Europe.”
“I want to congratulate President Emmanuel Macron on this occasion for his posture and work that has evidenced precisely to, in the international context, take positive steps so that we can have a peace process in Ukraine, Ukraine and Europe,” said the Portuguese Prime Minister.
Macron also recalled the importance of the state’s visit of a French president to Portugal – the first in 26 years, after the “last time” Jacques Chirac February 4, 1999.
