Portuguese PM pledges to strengthen relationship with France
Portugal is ready to commit to strengthening relations with France, Prime Minister Luís Montenegro told French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Wednesday, highlighting the European agendas but also the influence they share in Africa.
“Our predisposition is not only to continue but to strengthen our ties, so I come here, dear President, with the intention of continuing the relationship we have but to increase it and to tell you that we have in front of us an area of cooperation that can be deeper and that can serve our peoples,” said Montenegro at the Elysée Palace, where he was received for a working lunch.
“Portugal and France have a very transversal, historic partnership, both from a bilateral point of view” and from the point of view of “commitment to the values and construction of the future of the European Union, as well as from a global point of view in the United Nations” and in geographical areas where they have common interests, “such as Africa”, Montenegro told Macron.
