We need Portugal with the world

I just arrived from Norway where I was with Ambassador Pedro Pessoa e Costa and was lucky to watch the true ambassador. Institutional but close, simple but scholarly, unique and special.

It is a pride to come to a distant land, seemingly cold and far away but where I was lucky to record a special temperature (heat), with dignity, a depth and an unimaginable paint.

Note that an embassy and an ambassador like this is very proud and proud.

However, this relationship that economically will represent a few tenths of our GDP, in fact, sorry that it tells you, not quite.

I was lucky enough to know Oslo (“ˈʊʂɭu” as it should be pronounced), where we are quickly in a museum, terrace, restaurant and extraordinary, swimming at FJORD or even ski minutes of the city.

A city where restaurants and drinks are expensive, but the rest is viable and adjusted to any reality.

Where we walk and see Portuguese wines, materials and artists (Paula Rego will be next) and where many people know, live or live in our Portugal. In fact, I felt that Portugal, besides being known, is part and is a country with immense coexistence and coincidences.

I lived and met a society and country and that, by the history of our cod and the return to the world in the “barge”, has a lot to do with us even without knowing and recognizing.

In fact, Portugal is synonymous with the world and, therefore, responsibility. And the relationship with Norway becomes even more relevant in the current geopolitical context.

Therefore, I am sorry to watch the current provincialism that limits us and retracts. Which demonstrates well the lack of the world of the leadership of a homeland that always had more world than those who represented it.

Gentile generations should read, study, know (even with the help of chatgpts), to return to live globally and intensely, aware of the Force of Portugal and the existing global relations for over 500 years.

Therefore, we cannot continue in lived mediocrity, as it runs the huge risk of losing love and genuine respect that the world has for Portugal.

Portugal, the country of the sea and the world, needs to focus on the process of ratification of our continental shelf, aware that it will turn us and put again in the center of the world, as we have been.

It is a pride and a huge responsibility to be Portuguese with the world.

Because having the world is part of being Portuguese.

For being from the world is to be Portugal.

BTP

04/09/2025