Elizabeth Burne She headed to Lisbon on Saturday to wrap up the Franco-Portuguese cultural season, during an official visit that also featured a working lunch with her counterpart Antonio Costa on key international and European issues.
On Saturday morning, the French prime minister was greeted in torrential rain, and he visited the National Museum of Ancient Art with Costa. The installation of a self-portrait by French painter Nicolas Poussin opened in the presence of the President of the France-Portugal 2022 season, Emmanuel Demarci Motta.
Monument to Simon Fell
Then Bourne inaugurated a memorial dedicated to Simone Vell, a figure honored by the Portuguese in this cultural season, in the presence of the eldest son of the former President of the Republic. European ParliamentJean Phil.
The Prime Minister also inaugurated the exhibition “Dear Future for Me” at Gallery Boavista, where she spoke with French and Portuguese youth, before praising the “friendship between countries” and “the two peoples”, in which “two million people of Portuguese origin” live. in France and more than 50000 French Established in Portugal.
underwater pipeline
A working lunch with his counterpart Antonio Costa made it possible to discuss, in addition to the conflict in Ukraine and the situation in Africa“The interdependence that we will establish between our two countries, including withSpain She concluded in a press conference, while the heads of the two Iberian governments will meet on the sidelines of the Southern European Union Summit scheduled for December 8 and 9 in Alicante.
The three countries recently announced an agreement to build an undersea pipeline between them Barcelona And Marseilles, with the aim of transporting gas, and then green hydrogen, to replace the “MidCat” project for a pipeline through Pyrenees.
The question of profitability is on the table
When asked about taxes for big companies in the food sector, an idea recently brought to the table by Antonio Costa in Portugal, Bourne welcomed “the European system (…) that makes it possible to get super profits made in the energy sector due to very high energy prices.” .
Then she mentioned the “issue of sharing the wealth generated within companies” and recalled candidate Macron’s promise of “employee profits,” “a subject we are working on, which we have taken over from the social partners. […] At the moment, the timetable for negotiations is a bit loose, so we invite you to move forward as soon as possible so that we can make arrangements in the following texts that we will submit to Parliament. »
