Portugal awards Fainé the Grand Cross of the Order of the Infante Don Henrique

2023-09-06 20:37:16

He president of portugalMarcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has imposed this Wednesday the Grand Cross of the Order of the Infante Don Henrique a Isidre Fainépresident of the Fundación La Caixain recognition of his personal commitment for decades to promote the synergies between Portugal and Spain in the fields banking, industrial and social. He also attended the award ceremony for the country’s most important honorary civil distinction, held at the Palacio de Belem in Lisbon. artur santos silvatrustee of the La Caixa Foundation and honorary president of BPI, a Portuguese subsidiary of CaixaBank.

During the ceremony, the Catalan executive expressed his gratitude to the President of Portugal: “He is a great honor for me to receive a decoration of this importance, with so much historical weight and that they have received such illustrious personalities“. Fainé has emphasized the commitment of the La Caixa Foundation with the Portuguese country: “You can continue to count on my personal commitment and that of the institution I represent to contribute to the extent that we can joint development of our countries”.

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The La Caixa Foundation plans to invest in 2023 a budget of 50 million euros in Portugal in program development social, educational, cultural and medical research that address the main priorities of the country, as highlighted in a note. At the business level, the foundation’s commitment to the country is articulated through the participation of its ‘holding’, CriteriaCaixain CaixaBank (owner of the Portuguese bank BPI) and in other Portuguese listed companies, such as the group Sonae.

The Order of the Infante Don Henrique is, along with the Order of Libertythe honorary civil distinction more important From Portugal. Within it, the Grand Cross is the second highest grade, after the Great Collar, which only heads of state receive. Among the non-Portuguese people who have received the Grand Cross over the years, there are figures such as the founder of Microsoft Bill Gates; the Queen Sofia; the philologist Fernando Lázaro Carreter; and the former presidents of the European Commission, Jacques Delors and Jean-Claude Juncker.