Coinciding with the famous July 4, United States Independence Day (USA), and, after the Spanish president, Pedro Sánchez and the leader of the greatest power of the West, Donald Trump, (Netherlands) last week, the EE UU/Spain forum with an amazing message that claims the long history in common between both countries has opened this Friday. “This event is a place to meet again,” he said in his inaugural speech in the Cantabrian capital.
Felipe VI, who in his time as Prince of Asturias studied a master’s degree at the prestigious Georgetown University, in Washington, the US capital, has been said “lucky” for it. And in a context in which facing the most known, the king has remarked that the American centers “must continue to represent” the “refuge of freedom” that sow were.
After this slight message to a Trump, the King has continued his speech against American businessmen and congressmen with an appeasement message. With a message that had the mission of reminding the audience the points in common between the two countries. “Many things bring us closer to us,” the King said in a speech in English that has later ended in Spanish.
And he has listed “the inheritance of three centuries that Spain left in such a vast territory of North America” or “the growing vitality of the Spanish language, with 60 million Spanish speakers in the United States,” he stressed six months after. In that sense, Felipe VI wanted to presume the “immense contribution that the Hispanic community makes to American society.”
“We also serve together, side by side, as members of the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) and for our bilateral cooperation of more than 70 years in security and defense, especially with regard to the bases of Morón (Seville),” he recalled in a very eloquent way only ten days after the open confrontation between Sánchez and Trump for the 5% increase in defense spending that the American intends Alliance and that Sanchez has unmarked from the first moment
Therefore, “the transatlantic bond,” he warned, “should not be limited to a shared vision of global geopolitics, which can suffer ups and downs in certain political situation on one or another shore,” he recognized in allusion to the rarened relationship that both governments maintain.
Felipe VI has continued with data: 800 Spanish companies operate in the US and generate more than 85,000 direct and indirect jobs. In addition, the US is the largest extra -community investor in Spain, the king has illustrated to reflect the importance of the commercial and business relationship between the two countries to one side and another of the Atlantic.
Next year the 250th anniversary of the Unanimous Declaration of the 13 United States of America, the Declaration of Independence, founding act of the new State is celebrated. “It will be an opportunity to reflect on history (…). It will also be a time to remember and proudly recognize the invaluable role that Spain played (…), which would be so crucial for the destiny of the modern world,” said Felipe VI.
