2024-12-11 21:22:00
Noa speech in English, during a reception given to the kings of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander and Máxima, in exchange for the state banquet on Tuesday, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa left an invitation to Princess Catharina-Amalia, heir to the throne, to visit Portugal .
“I can’t resist a little improvisation, which is to invite Her Royal Highness Princess Amalia, a name that is also very Portuguese, to visit, on one of her first official visits – short, I promise – our country,” he said. .
The head of state thanked the kings of the Netherlands for their “exceptional and warm hospitality” and said he was ”deeply inspired” by the places he has been, “the fruitful exchanges” and “the opportunities” revealed during this visit.
“Our high expectations were exceeded,” he considered.
On the other hand, he left “a note of profound gratitude and pride” for the “way in which Portuguese citizens were welcomed and integrated in the Netherlands”, underlining that he had met “many brilliant portuguese people who work, study, research in the countries Bassi” more advanced areas” and has no doubt that “they bring added value”.
“In these difficult and uncertain times”, the Head of State ensured “constant commitment and ambition in the relationship and friendship between Portugal and the Netherlands”.
In his farewell speech, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa quoted Espinosa, “a Dutch philosopher with Portuguese Sephardic Jewish parents”, and also the footballer and coach Johan Cruyff, “another great Dutchman”, on the importance of “learning to understand” and to “work together”.
Subsequently,he invited the kings,Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof and others present in the auditorium of the Royal Tropical Institute,in Amsterdam,to listen to a fado concert by the “best of the best”,Camané,someone who “proves that fado does not it’s conservative music,in contrast.”
“They are melancholic melodies. In Portuguese they say saudade. That’s what I feel when I leave the Netherlands,” said the President of the Republic, adding: “Please, have fun. It is Portugal that thanks you for this visit and for the your friendship”.
In this two-day state visit, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa visited amsterdam, The Hague and Delft, met with the dutch kings and prime minister, and visited the Senate and the house of Representatives. First, on Monday, he met the portuguese and Portuguese descendants.
Accompanying him on this trip were the Minister of Economy, Pedro Reis, the Secretary of state for European Affairs, Inês Domingos, the parliamentary leader of the CDS-PP, Paulo Núncio, and the deputies Eurico Brilhante Dias, of the PS, Isaura Morais, of the PSD, Marta Martins da Silva, of Chega, and Mário Amorim Lopes, of the IL.
Kings Willem-Alexander and Máxima were in Portugal on a state visit in October 2017.
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