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"Today, more than ever, it is necessary to build bridges. When some build walls, when others start wars, when others carry out terrorist attacks, there is nothing like joining hands, helping to build peace and development, and peace and development are only built if prosperity is shared", said Prime Minister António Costa.
The Prime Minister was speaking at the closing ceremony of the forum on the European Global Gateway initiative, created to foster investment especially in less developed regions of Africa and Latin America, in areas such as transport, digitalisation, energy, health, education and research.
At the forum, which met in Brussels, António Costa said that "global challenges require global responses" so that "only with a strong and close partnership on a global scale will we make good use of the opportunities that the digital and green transition can give to promote sustainable development, empowerment and trade".
António Costa referred to examples of partnerships between Portuguese companies and African and Latin American partners, such as the digital logistics corridors between the port of Sines and ports in Angola and Brazil and the transatlantic maritime route to Mexico.
"In addition to promoting Europe's energy and industrial resilience, these projects will create wealth and jobs in strategic partners in Africa and Latin America, ensure the sharing of technology and know-how, and contribute to fairer digital and climate transitions on both sides of the Atlantic," he also said.
The Prime Minister also said that, in Europe and Portugal, "we have to innovate with regard to financial mechanisms to support Global Gateway investments in a sustainable way, a model that Portugal is already applying in the framework of its bilateral relations with Cabo Verde", through the "transformation of public debt into climate investments".
