The Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, and his Portuguese counterpart Pedro Passos Coelho, remade in the Spanish-Portuguese summit tomorrow in the Galician town of Baiona alliance of common interest to the EU to be met thirty years accession of Spain and Portugal to the European Communities.
Baiona will XXVIII summit between the two countries and will be attended with their respective heads of government ministers of Foreign Affairs, Defense, Interior, Industry, Development and Employment, along with the Secretaries of State tourism.
For the meeting to be held Rajoy and Passos Coelho and be parallel to which will star his ministers, both addressed, according to government sources, some of the issues that will be on the agenda of the summit countries tomorrow euro and the European Council to be held on Thursday and Friday.
Tomorrow night, the eurozone leaders in Brussels discussed the negotiations with Greece to reach agreement on a list of reforms to enable the country to access the 7,200 million euros pending rescue.
Rajoy has been advocating solidarity with Greece, but provided that the Government of Alexis Tsipras to take responsibility and to respect the signed agreements, a position that is shared by the Portuguese Government.
Also, Rajoy and Passos Coelho discuss the refugee-hosting proposal put forward by the Commission for the Twenty-eight and has been received with suspicion by both countries.
In the last bilateral summit, Spain and Portugal urged the European Union to work “better and faster” in favor of the economic recovery and called for progress on energy interconnections in the EU the Iberian Peninsula stops being an energy island.
Since then, there have been various steps in that direction, as the specific meeting that took place last March 4 on this subject in Madrid by Spain, Portugal, France and the European Commission.
The result of it, on 15 June, the three countries signed an agreement to create a High Level Group to prepare a plan to break down barriers and boost key energy infrastructure projects in southwestern Europe .
Since the last Spanish-Portuguese summit, the EU has taken as its own the challenge of increasing the energy infrastructure for southern Europe and opened the door for many to be built are financed by the Juncker called Investment Plan.
In all affect Rajoy again and Passos Coelho at the summit to be held in Baiona, conscientious, according to these sources, there is no time to waste on this issue and that soon will be decide which projects will be funded Juncker plan.
All this, according to the executive, is a demonstration of the importance for Spain and Portugal of its entry into the European communities 30 years ago.
It was last June 12 when the anniversary was met, and the final declaration of the summit tomorrow reference to the significance of that fact must be disclosed, as well as the key role that the two countries give structural reforms to achieve economic growth and job creation.
The fight against jihadist terrorism and the negotiations between the EU and the US to achieve a free trade agreement will also be present at the bilateral meeting, in which context a meeting of the Hispano-Luso Council be held defense.
The summit will be held at the Parador de Baiona is expected that the regional president of Galicia, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to move there for Rajoy and then the Portuguese prime minister.
The two heads of government will offer a press conference and then will travel to Brussels to participate in the meeting of eurozone leaders on Greece.
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