Luxembourg-Portuguese relations

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The Luxembourg-Portuguese relations describe the intergovernmental relationship between Luxembourg and Portugal . The countries have had direct diplomatic relations since 1891 . They both belong u. a. the EU , the Eurozone , the OSCE , the OECD , the European Space Agency and the Schengen area . Since 2018, Luxembourg has also had observer status in the community of Portuguese-speaking countries .

The bilateral relations are considered excellent. On the occasion of a visit by Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel to Portugal in early March 2014, Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho emphasized the historically good relations between the two countries. He thanked the Luxembourgers for the good reception of the Portuguese immigrants and cited the constructive cooperation between the two governments at all levels as a model for European integration . Bettel agreed with Coelho and referred to the Portuguese-born Félix Braz , who was Minister of Justice in his government. In contrast, both described bilateral trade as expandable.

Portuguese make up 16% of Luxembourg's citizens, making them the largest foreign group. For example, Luxembourg's leading newspaper, the Luxemburger Wort , offers numerous articles on its website, also in Portuguese . A number of Luxembourg politicians, athletes, entrepreneurs and cultural workers are of Portuguese descent, such as MEP Isabel Wiseler-Santos Lima , Grand Duchess Charlotte or national football players such as Gerson Rodrigues , Ricardo Aleixo Delgado or Joël Pedro .

history

Maria Anna of Portugal (1894), Grand Duchess of Luxembourg

When the Luxembourg house Nassau-Weilburg took over government in 1890, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg achieved its final independence . In 1891 Luxembourg and Portugal established direct diplomatic relations.

On June 21, 1893, the Grand Duke William of Luxembourg married the Portuguese Princess Maria Anna of Portugal . With Wilhelm's accession to the throne in 1905, Maria Anna became Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.

During the German occupation of Luxembourg in World War II , the Luxembourg Grand Duchess Charlotte managed to escape using a Portuguese visa issued by Aristides de Sousa Mendes , Portuguese consul in Bordeaux, France .

In the 1960s, Portuguese workers began to immigrate to Luxembourg, workers etc. a. needed in its steel industry. The number of Portuguese in Luxembourg has risen steadily since then. In 1970, the Luxembourg statistical office STATEC counted 5,783 Portuguese, in 2011 it was 82,363, which corresponds to 16.1% of the population.

A first social security agreement in 1965 was followed by an expansion in 1979.

As early as 1988, the Luxembourg politician and later Prime Minister and Chairman of the Euro Group Jean-Claude Juncker was awarded the Grand Cross of the Portuguese Order of Infante Dom Henrique .

On the occasion of the visit of the President of the Portuguese Parliament Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues to Luxembourg, an exhibition on 125 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries was opened on September 13, 2016 in the National Museum of History and Art in the capital.

Alain de Muyser, Luxembourg Ambassador to Portugal from 2004 to 2010

At the 12th Conference of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries in Cape Verde on July 17 and 18, 2018, Luxembourg was granted observer status.

diplomacy

Vicente Pinheiro Machado de Melo e Almada ( Visconde de Pindela ), Portugal's ambassador to the Netherlands, was the first Portuguese ambassador to be accredited in Luxembourg on May 21, 1891 . The permanent embassy in the capital Luxembourg City now resides at Rue Guiliaume Schnerder No. 24. In Route de Longwy No. 282, Portugal has also set up a consulate general in the capital .

The Luxembourg embassy is located at 43 Rua das Janelas Verdes in the capital, Lisbon . The administrative district of the Luxembourg embassy in Portugal also includes Cape Verde .

Town twinning

Eight municipalities in both countries are linked by town and municipality partnerships (as of 2018), as an expression of the close Luxembourg-Portuguese relations and the significant proportion of people of Portuguese origin in the population of Luxembourg.

economy

In 2015, Portugal exported goods and services worth 460.7 million euros to Luxembourg (2014: 438.3 million; 2013: 341.8 million; 2012: 289.8 million; 2011: 266.6 million .), of which 24.4% food, 13.7% agricultural products, 11.9% vehicles and vehicle parts and 6.3% machines and devices.

In the same period, Luxembourg delivered goods and services worth EUR 413.2 million to Portugal (2014: 322.8 million; 2013: 225.9 million; 2012: 201.7 million; 2011: 173.7 million .), of which 46.4% machines and devices, 24.7% chemical-pharmaceutical products, 11.5% metals and 3.5% plastics.

In 2015 , Luxembourg was 47th as a buyer and 46th as a supplier in the Portuguese foreign trade statistics. In Luxembourg's foreign trade in 2015, Portugal was 35th among buyers and 23rd among suppliers. However, part of the imports from Portugal go to Luxembourg via Belgium, so that they are included in the Belgian-Portuguese statistics and not in the Luxembourg-Portuguese trade balance.

With income of 141.8 million euros in 2015 (2014: 130.3 million; 2012: 113.1 million; 2012: 103.1 million; 2011: 83.0 million) Luxembourg tourists were for 1 Responsible for 2% of Portuguese tourism .

Portuguese shop in Luxembourg promoting both Luxembourgish Bofferding beer and Portuguese Delta coffee. The shop was filming location in the Austrian-Luxembourg film Perl or Pica (2006)

In 2015, remittances by Portuguese employees from Luxembourg to Portugal exceeded the 100 million mark for the first time, at 114.47 million euros. In 2005 the transfers amounted to 69.54 million euros, in 2010 it was 84.41 million euros.

Culture

The Portuguese cultural institute Instituto Camões has a language center in Luxembourg City and a lecturer at the University of Luxembourg .

Mutual exhibitions, concerts and other cultural events have increased in recent years, especially events of Portuguese culture in Luxembourg. In a cultural agreement announced since 2015, the mutual exchange is to be expanded and deepened.

Occasionally, there are joint productions between Portuguese and Luxembourgish cinema . Examples are the internationally award-winning Nha Fala - My Voice (2002), filmed in Cape Verde , the star-studded, thoughtful and cheerful Die Schwenken der Frauen (1997) or the Portuguese crime drama Os Imortais (2003) with the Luxembourgish André Jung .

Luxembourg national player Daniel da Mota in the qualifying game for the Euro 2016 against Ukraine on June 14, 2015

Sports

The Luxembourg national football team and the Portuguese national team have met 15 times so far, with Portugal winning 13 times and Luxembourg winning once, one game ended in a draw (as of January 2017). They met for the first time on March 19, 1961 in qualifying for the 1962 World Cup , with Portugal winning 6-0 in Lisbon. In the following second leg on October 8, 1961 in Luxembourg, the hosts managed their only win against Portugal with a score of 4-2.

Football players of Portuguese origin, often of Luxembourg nationality, also compete for Luxembourg clubs and occasionally for the Luxembourg national team, such as Daniel da Mota .

A number of clubs in Luxembourg were founded by the Portuguese or are closely related to the Portuguese community in the country, such as the Sporting Club Steinfort .

The Portuguese and Luxembourg women's national teams have not yet faced each other (as of January 2017).

Web links

Commons : Luxembourg-Portuguese relations  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Overview of diplomatic relations with Luxembourg at the diplomatic institute in the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs , accessed on May 4, 2019
  2. ↑ Relações Portugal-Luxemburgo são exemplo para integração europeia [Portuguese-Luxembourg relations are a model for European integration], article from March 3, 2014 in the Portuguese news portal Notícias ao Minuto , accessed on February 18, 2017
  3. ↑ a b Portugueses são 16% da população, diz Statec [Portuguese make up 16% of the population says Statec], article from June 7, 2013 in the newspaper Luxemburger Wort , accessed on February 18, 2017
  4. ↑ a b Portugal e Luxemburgo querem reforçar relações culturais [Portugal and Luxembourg want to strengthen cultural relations], article of September 3, 2015 in the Luxemburger Wort newspaper , accessed on February 18, 2017
  5. ↑ "A emigração portuguesa para o Luxemburgo not é incentivada!" [“Portuguese emigration to Luxembourg is not funded!”], Article from October 23, 2014 in the newspaper Luxemburger Wort , accessed on February 18, 2017
  6. ↑ a b Article on the exhibition Luxemburgo - Portugal - 125 anos de Relações Diplomáticas ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Diplomatic Institute at the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed February 18, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / idi.mne.pt
  7. ↑ a b Portugal e Luxemburgo: dois países com uma relação excepcional [Portugal and Luxembourg: two countries with an exceptional relationship], article of March 3, 2014 in the Portuguese newspaper Público , accessed on February 18, 2017
  8. ↑ The Luxembourg-Portuguese Social Security Agreement of 1979 (Portuguese), PDF access in the documentation archive of the Portuguese Public Prosecutor's Office, accessed on February 18, 2017
  9. ↑ CPLP: OBSERVADORES ASSOCIADOS , website of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries CPLP on observer status, accessed on September 1, 2019
  10. ^ Website of the Luxembourg Embassy in Lisbon , accessed on February 18, 2017
  11. ↑ List of Luxembourg-Portuguese town twinning on the website of the Association of Portuguese District Government ANMP, accessed on February 18, 2019
  12. ↑ a b Bilateral economic relations between Portugal and Luxembourg , Excel file retrieval from the Portuguese Chamber of Commerce AICEP , accessed on February 18, 2017
  13. ↑ Information on Portuguese emigration 2015 (Portuguese), PDF access in the portal of the Portuguese Foreign Ministry for the Portuguese abroad, accessed on February 18, 2017
  14. ↑ Remessas dos Emigrantes Portugueses [remittances from the Portuguese abroad], article from July 21, 2016 of the Portuguese business portal www.economiapt.com, accessed on February 18, 2017
  15. ↑ Overview of the activities in Luxembourg , website of the Portuguese cultural institute Instituto Camões , accessed on February 18, 2017