Portuguese-Romanian relations

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The Portuguese-Romanian relations describe the intergovernmental relationship between Portugal and Romania . The countries have maintained renewed diplomatic relations since 1974.

Relations between the two countries have traditionally been good. It connects history as part of the Roman Empire , which can be seen in the Romance languages ​​of both countries. In addition to the common membership in the European Union , NATO , the Latin Union , the OSCE and the Council of Europe , the growing Romanian community in Portugal is now an important link. Romanians are now the largest group of EU foreigners in Portugal, after traditionally the British were.

Romania was the first state to recognize the new Portuguese government after the Carnation Revolution of April 25, 1974.

history

The Roman province of Dacia ( Dacia ) in what is now Romania, where soldiers and settlers from what is now Portugal came to

For the first time, residents from today's Portugal in the area of ​​today's Romania are documented from the time of the Roman conquest of Dacia in today's Romania, when soldiers and other residents came from the Iberian Peninsula to this point. Today's Romanian and today's Portuguese also emerged from this common Latin language history. Similar place names such as Viseu in Portugal and Vişeu de Sus or Vişeu de Jos in Romania go back to this era, but other cultural traces can also be found today. In some villages in Transylvania, for example, pagan fertility rituals that are of Hispanic origin can be found, for example in Tăure in the Bistrița-Năsăud district , whose toponym has the same Latin origin (taurem) as touro (Portuguese for bull) and where the ritual is the washing of a young bull includes by village girls. Fertility rituals of Hispanic origin have also been preserved in Pădureni, in Căianu Mic and in Mănăstirea near Dej .

The well-known Romanian historian Nicolae Iorga dealt in a treatise from 1925 with the meeting between the Wallachian prince Dan III. and the Portuguese Prince Peter of Portugal on his travels through Eastern Europe at the beginning of the 15th century.

On December 7, 1919, Martinho Teixeira Homem de Brederode began his service in the newly opened legation in Bucharest. The Legation was responsible for the Balkans and was also accredited in this function in Greece and Serbia .

The last king of Romania , King Carol II , went into exile in Estoril, Portugal, after 1940 . After his death in 1953, he was buried by the semi-fascist Portuguese Salazar dictatorship in the national pantheon of Portugal . It was only long after the end of the People's Republic of Romania that his remains were transferred to Romania, on February 14, 2003.

Portugal's Pedro Passos Coelho (left) and Romania's Siegfried Mureșan at a meeting of the conservative European People's Party in 2013

After the Second World War , Romania was in a state of upheaval and became part of the Eastern Bloc . On November 20, 1945, Manuel Farrajota Rocheta was the last Portuguese ambassador to leave the representation, which was then closed.

Only after the Carnation Revolution in Portugal on April 25, 1974 and the subsequent end of the anti-communist Estado Novo regime, did the two countries renew their direct diplomatic relations on June 3, 1974. Luís de Vasconcelos Pimentel Quartim Bastos took part in the new on August 21, 1974 opened the Portuguese embassy in Bucharest and on the following August 28th he was officially accredited by the Romanian government.

After Portugal was admitted to today's EU in 1986, Romania joined the community in 2007. Relations between the two countries subsequently intensified relatively, and the states have been converging ever since.

On November 13, 2013, João Bernardo de Oliveira Martins Weinstein accredited himself as the current representative of Portugal in Bucharest.

migration

Romanians in Portugal

In 2016, 30,429 Romanian citizens were registered in Portugal (2014: 31,505; 2011: 39,312; 2007: 19,155). This made them the fourth largest foreign population in Portugal.

Immigration from Romania began in Portugal in the economic boom years of the 1990s and has increased continuously since then. Since 2008, when their number reached 27,769, they have been the largest foreign population of any EU country in Portugal, which until then has always been the British.

The total of remittances from Portugal to Romania amounted to € 19.79 million in 2016 ( 2015 : 19.77 million; 2010 : 20.46 million; 2007 : 18.0 million; 2000 : 3.87 million) ).

Portuguese in Romania

In 2014, 635 Portuguese citizens were registered as consular in Romania; in 2011, 735 Portuguese lived there.

In 2016 they transferred 1.19 million euros back to Portugal ( 2015 : 1.28 million; 2010 : 0.99 million; 2007 : 0.5 million; 2000 : 0.07 million).

The Portuguese Embassy in Bucharest

diplomacy

Portugal has an embassy in the Romanian capital, Bucharest , at 55 Paris Street. There are no Portuguese consulates in Romania.

The Romanian representation in Portugal is located on Rua São Caetano number 5, in the Lisbon municipality of Lapa . There is a Romanian honorary consulate in Estoril , and the Romanian embassy also offers consular services in the premises of municipal administrations in Porto and Loulé on the Algarve coast .

Town twinning

Nine locations in both countries are linked as partners, with direct Portuguese-Romanian town twinning and cooperation agreements or in European partnership projects (status 2013).

economy

The Portuguese-Romanian trade relations are comparatively old. Romania was the supplier of the first Portuguese import of refined petroleum products.

The Portuguese Chamber of Commerce AICEP has a branch in Romania, at the Portuguese Embassy in Bucharest.

Sunflower field near Galați : Sunflower seeds are the most important Romanian export good to Portugal

In 2016, Portugal exported goods and services worth 427.8 million euros to Romania ( 2015 : 324.2 million; 2014 : 308.5 million; 2013 : 336.3 million; 2012 : 294.0 million .). The share of goods amounted to 389.1 million euros, 37.9% of which were vehicles and vehicle parts, 24.6% machines and devices, 10.0% textiles and 4% plastics and rubber.

During the same period, Romania delivered goods and services worth EUR 133.4 million to Portugal ( 2015 : 146.8 million; 2014 : 140.0 million; 2013 : 145.3 million; 2012 : 149.8 million .). The share of goods amounted to 122.7 million euros, of which 38.8% agricultural products, 15.3% machines and devices, 12.2% metals and 9.4% plastics and rubber.

This made Romania 18th place among buyers and 43rd place among suppliers in Portuguese foreign trade, while Portugal was 36th place among buyers and 27th place among suppliers in Romania's foreign trade in 2016.

With overnight stays of 24.2 million euros in 2016 ( 2015 : 21.7 million; 2014 : 17.0 million; 2013 : 16.9 million; 2012 : 16.0 million) tourists from Romania have one Share of 0.19% in Portuguese tourism.

Culture

Constantin Sandu at a concert in Portugal in 2007

General

The Portuguese cultural institute Instituto Camões (IC) is represented in Romania with language centers in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca , Constanța and Timișoara , where there are also lectureships of the IC at the universities there.

The Romanian counterpart, the Institutul Cultural Român , has a branch in Lisbon.

The bilingual Romanian-Portuguese newspaper “Diáspora Romena e Moldava” , edited by Romeo Marin, has been published in Lisbon since 2004 .

Some well-known Romanian cultural workers lived temporarily in Portugal, including the philosopher Lucian Blaga , who was a Romanian diplomat in Lisbon from April 30, 1939 to April 30, 1940, where he wrote poems about Estoril , among other things . The religious scholar and author Mircea Eliade also lived in Portugal, where he worked from 1940 to 1945 at the Romanian embassy in Lisbon for the pro-fascist government in Bucharest. Eliade wrote articles in Portuguese magazines and published there with "Os Romenos, Latinos do Oriente" (Clássica Editora, Lisbon 1943) a book about the Romanians.

The pianist Constantin Sandu , born in Bucharest on January 1, 1964, has lived in Portugal since 1991 and is now a Portuguese citizen. In 2006 he received his doctorate from the National Music University of Bucharest with a thesis on Portuguese piano music . Today he is a professor at the Escola Superior de Música e das Artes do Espectáculo do Porto in Porto, where he heads the piano department.

Nicolae Iorga (2014)

Nicolae Iorga

The important Romanian author, publisher, politician and historian Nicolae Iorga published several times on Portugal and its culture. He dedicated a separate chapter to Camões in his “History of Romance Literature” (Bucharest, 1920), organized several series of lectures in Romania on topics related to Portugal, and published “O País Latino Mais Afastado da Europa: Portugal” (Bucharest, 1928 , German for example: "Portugal, the most distant Latin country from Europe") a comprehensive view of Portugal.

On a lecture tour through Portugal in March 1928, Iorga discovered a previously unknown portrait of the Romanian national hero Michael the Brave from the year 1600 in Évora .

Literature and linguistics

Main building of the University of Bucharest, a focus of Lusitan Studies in Romania

In a number of Romanian universities consist Lusitanistics Training Courses, often in cooperation with the Portuguese cultural institute Instituto Camões (IC). At the University of Bucharest there is the Cátedra Fernando Pessoa chair in cooperation with the IC, and there are also Lusitan Studies courses at a large number of other universities, for example in Bucharest , Constanța , Cluj , Iași and Timisoara .

A large number of Romanian Lusitanists and literary scholars studied Portugal and its literature and language. In addition to the Iorga and Coseriu mentioned, the Romanian professor Victor Buesco and the Portuguese Romanist Daniel Perdigão, who lives in Romania, should also be mentioned.

Roxana Eminescu published "Novas Coordenadas no Romance Português" in 1993, a work on contemporary Portuguese literary history, before collaborating with Fátima Gil to create the "Catálogo de Traduções de Autores Portugueses" , a catalog of translations published in 1994 by the IC and the Gulbenkian Foundation Portuguese authors.

We should also mention the Romanian Lusitanist Dan Caragea , who published a Portuguese language course for foreigners in Lisbon in 1995 and translated works of Portuguese literature, and Mioara Caragea , of whom a collection and studies of contemporary narratives from Portugal appeared in 1996. Other well-known Lusitanists from Romania are the university professors Angela Mocanu, Micaela Ghițescu, Adriana Ciama and Pavel Mocanu, whose works include a book published in 2003 on the documents of Portuguese diplomacy to the Romanian principalities in the 17th to 19th centuries.

The often praised “Gramática da Língua Romena” by Grigore Dobrinescu was published in Portuguese in 1980 in Brazil .

The Romanian Romanist Eugenio Coseriu taught at the University of Coimbra in 1962 and is the author of important studies, in particular on the "Gramática da Linguagem Portuguesa" written by Fernão de Oliveira in 1536 .

A number of translators made Portuguese literature accessible to a wide audience in Romania. Micaela Ghițescu has translated works by over 40 different authors into Romanian, including “The History of Portugal” by AH de Oliveira Marques , for which she was awarded by the Society for Portuguese Language.

Teatro Municipal in Vila do Conde: Romanian directors have received several awards at the Curtas Vila do Conde short film festival

Stefan Bitan translated Manuel Alegre , while Dinu Flămând translated some works by Fernando Pessoa .

Miora Caragea has translated works by Agustina Bessa-Luís , Eça de Queirós and José Saramago into Romanian and has also received an award from the Lisbon Society for the Portuguese Language. The Romanian publisher Editura Polirom from Bucharest has already published a number of Saramagos novels in Romania.

Movie

The Romanian film is regularly Portuguese film festival guest. For example, Paul Negoescu won the 2009 most important Portuguese short film competition, the Curtas Vila do Conde , as “Best European Short Film”, and Adrian Sitaru won the 2010 “Grand Prize of the City of Vila do Conde ” there. At IndieLisboa u. a. Cristi Puiu (2006) and Radu Jude (2007 and 2009) were awarded.

Sports

Basarab Panduru in 1994, one year before moving to Benfica Lisbon

Soccer

The Portuguese national team and the Romanian national soccer team have met eleven times so far, for the first time during qualifying for the 1966 World Cup . On June 13, 1965, Portugal won 2-1 in Lisbon. In total, the Portuguese remained victorious five times, the Romanians won four times, and they were drawn twice (as of August 2017).

Romania was not at the EM 2014 in Portugal .

The Portuguese and Romanian national women's teams have met four times so far, for the first time on February 26, 2010 in Parchal , during the Algarve Cup 2010 . All four matches ended in a draw (as of August 2017).

Romanian players are more often under contract in Portugal, such as Basarab Panduru , who was born in the 1900s a. a. for Benfica Lisbon and FC Porto . Ion Timofte was under contract with FC Porto for a few years and then with city rivals Boavista Porto , Marius udumudică played for Marítimo Funchal on the island of Madeira , and Lucian Marinescu played for various Portuguese clubs in the 2000s. Marius Niculae worked for Sporting Lisbon for several years , Cristian Săpunaru at FC Porto.

Occasionally, Portuguese players are also in the service of Romanian clubs, such as Pedro Santos , who played for the Romanian first division club Astra Giurgiu in 2013 .

Scene from the game Portugal - Romania at the European Sevens 2008 in Hanover

rugby

The Portuguese national rugby union team and the Romanian national rugby union team have met frequently. In the first 14 encounters up to February 2009 the Romanians were victorious 13 times, once the Portuguese got the upper hand.

They have also met each other in the game of 7-a-side rugby , for example at the European Sevens 2008 in Hanover, where Portugal won by 38:00.

tennis

At the most important Portuguese tennis tournament for women, the WTA Oeiras , the Romanian Andreea Ehritt-Vanc won the doubles alongside the Russian Anastassija Rodionova in 2007 . In 2010 , with Sorana Cîrstea, another Romanian won the doubles of the tournament, together with Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spain).

So far, no Romanian has won the most important Portuguese men's tournament, the ATP Estoril .

The tennis tournament ATP Challenger Guimarães was held only once, in 2013. The Romanian Marius Copil was only defeated in the final by the Portuguese João Sousa .

In Romania so far (as of 2016) there have been neither the ATP Bucharest nor the WTA Bucharest winners from Portugal. João Sousa's advance to the semi-finals at the BRD Sibiu Challenger 2012 was one of the more successful appearances of Portuguese tennis in Romania.

Other

In the CAR Centro Náutico de Montemor-o-Velho , venue of the European Rowing and Canoeing Championships in Portugal

At the 2010 European Rowing Championships in Montemor-o-Velho , Romania achieved sixth place with two gold and one bronze medals, while host Portugal came in 12th with one silver and one bronze medal.

Also in Montemor-o-Velho the Canoe Racing European Championships 2013 took place, which Romania finished 11th and Portugal 12th.

Romania and the organizing Portugal were represented at the European handball championship in 1994 and met in the game for 11th place, Romania won 38:21.

The host of the European Fencing Championships in 2000 was Portugal in sixth place and Romania in eighth place.

At the 2007 European Futsal Championship , hosts Portugal and Romania met in group A. Portugal won 3-0 and later came fourth, Romania knocked out after the preliminary round.

Web links

Commons : Relations between Portugal and Romania  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Overview of diplomatic relations with Romania at the diplomatic institute in the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs , accessed on May 4, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Fernando Cristóvão (Ed.): Dicionário Temático da Lusofonia. Texto Editores, Lisbon / Luanda / Praia / Maputo 2006 ( ISBN 972-47-2935-4 ), pp. 847f
  3. ↑ a b c List of Portuguese representatives in Romania ( Memento of the original from December 1, 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. at the Diplomatic Institute in the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed September 1, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / idi.mne.pt
  4. ↑ Number of foreigners in the official foreigner statistics by district , Portuguese Immigration and Border Authority SEF, accessed on September 1, 2017
  5. ↑ Annual report of the Portuguese Immigration and Borders Authority SEF (p. 11), accessed on September 1, 2017
  6. ↑ a b Website on Portuguese emigration in Romania (Table A.6) at the Portuguese Scientific Observatório da Emigração , accessed on September 1, 2017
  7. ↑ Website on Portuguese emigration in Romania (Tables A.2 and A.3) at the Portuguese Scientific Observatório da Emigração , accessed on September 1, 2017
  8. ↑ List of Portuguese missions abroad , Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed on September 1, 2017
  9. ↑ List of official Romanian contacts in Portugal , website of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (English), accessed on January 25, 2018
  10. ↑ Information on the website of the Romanian Embassy in Portugal , accessed on September 1, 2017
  11. ↑ List of Portuguese-Romanian town twinning on the website of the Association of Portuguese District Administration ANMP, accessed on September 1, 2017
  12. ↑ Website on the AICEP branch in Bucharest , accessed on September 1, 2017
  13. ↑ a b c d Bilateral Economic Relations between Portugal and Romania , AICEP website, accessed on September 1, 2017
  14. ↑ a b Overview of the activities in Romania , website of the Instituto Camões, accessed on September 1, 2017
  15. ↑ Website of the Instituto Cultural Romeno in Lisbon (under Lisabona ), accessed on January 25, 2018
  16. ↑ Biography on the Constantin Sandus website , accessed on September 2, 2017
  17. ↑ see list of international matches of the Romanian national soccer team # international match balance sheets
  18. ↑ see list of the internationals of the Portuguese national soccer team # international match balance sheets
  19. ↑ see Romanian national rugby union team # international matches