Madrid (EFE) .
The summit will officially begin early on Wednesday but beforehand, after landing on the island today, Sánchez and Costa will visit the House-Museum of the Portuguese Nobel Prize winner in literature José Saramago, whose birth was the centenary last year, to later attend a a joint dinner with the two delegations, which included nine Spanish ministers.
The author of “Essay on blindness” or “The stone raft” symbolizes the union of both countries, which also share a great harmony in European issues and a common commitment to cross-border development.
Framed in the Atlantic, as a link with Latin America, the summit will serve for Sánchez to present to Costa the objectives of the Spanish presidency of the Council of the European Union, which is held in the second half of this year. In Moncloa there is no doubt that Spain will have the support of Portugal for this important task, just as it was done, in the opposite direction, during the Portuguese presidency.
The good relationship between the two leaders, which was seen in the negotiation of the so-called “Iberian exception”, will also serve to ensure that the joint declaration of the summit reflects the commitment to advance on the Celorico da Beira (Portugal)-Zamora section, which is part of H2Med.
In addition to the common cross-border development strategy, on which some of the agreements resulting from the meeting will be based, infrastructures will also appear on the meeting’s agenda, with progress in the Atlantic corridor and the European transport network.