Portugal entered the European Economic Community on 1 January 1986, together with Spain. In the following years the economy of the Portugal progressed considerably as a result of the EU structural and cohesion funds.

On 1 December 2009, the Treaty of Lisbon, signed by European Member States on 13 December 2007 in the Jeronimos Monastery in Lisbon, entered into force. Portugal has 21 MEPs in the EP and has 12 votes in the European Council.

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From January to June 2021, Portugal held the Presidency of the EU Council, following the German Presidency and preceding the Slovenian Presidency.

Portugal presided over the Council of the European Union for the fourth time, since 1992.

Portuguese Presidency of the Council declared the importance of strengthening Europe's resilience and its citizens' confidence in the European social model, promoting a Union based on shared values of solidarity, convergence and cohesion – a Union capable of coordinated action to recover from the crisis.

Portuguese Presidency

António COSTA, Portuguese Prime Minister, is the third EU leader to debate the future of Europe with MEPs and Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the EC, on Wednesday morning.

The Europeans want the EU to change. This is why the European Parliament is taking the leadership over a reform of the EU.

Parliament set out its vision for the future of Europe in three resolutions voted in plenary session on 16 February 2017. MEPs suggested, among other things:

<ul>
	<li>turning the Council of Ministers into a genuine second legislative chamber, and its configurations into preparatory bodies similar to Parliament’s committees,</li>
	<li>appointing an EU finance minister and giving the EU Commission the power to formulate and give effect to a common EU economic policy, backed up by a euro-area budget, and</li>
	<li>creating a fiscal capacity consisting of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and specific additional budgetary capacity for the euro area, funded by its members as a part of the EU budget.</li>
</ul>

Debate on the Future of Europe with António COSTA, Portuguese Prime Ministe

Participation of Roberta METSOLA, EP President to the Conference of Estoril "The World Ahead"

During her official visit to Lisbon (Portugal), Roberta METSOLA, EP President, is invited to participate to the Conference of Estoril on the thematic "The World Ahead", where she gives a speech. This transcription is a result of an automatic process. Please check against delivery.

Participation of Roberta METSOLA, EP President to the Conference of Estoril "The World Ahead": opening exchange

During her official visit to Lisbon in Portugal, Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with young people at the Town Hall, at the Coreto no Jardim da Estrela, Guerra Junqueiro Garden. She is also invited to participate to the Conference of Estoril on the thematic "The World Ahead", where she gives a keynote speech.

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Lisbon, Portugal: Town Hall Meeting with Young People and Closing keynote address at the Estoril Conference

During her official visit to Lisbon in Portugal, Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Mr Augusto SANTOS SILVA, Speaker of Assembleia da Republica.

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Lisbon, Portugal: Meeting with Augusto SANTOS SILVA, Speaker of Assembleia da Republica

During her official visit to Lisbon in Portugal, Roberta METSOLA, EP President, visits the Lisbon Town Hall where she meets with Carlos Moedas, Mayor of Lisbon. Later, the EP President visits the Champalimaud Foundation, a private biomedical research foundation.

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Lisbon, Portugal: visit to the Lisbon Town Hall and visit to the Champalimaud Foundation

During her official visit in Lisbon, Portugal, Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with the Olympic Committee of Portugal. She meets the atheltes Patrícia Mamona (Athletics, silver in triple jump at Tokyo 2020), Telma Monteiro (Judo, bronze at Rio 2016), Lorene Bazolo (Athletics), Tamila Holub (Swimming), Maria Caetano (Equestrian) and Diana Gomes (Swimming, current president of the portuguese Olympic Athletes Comission).

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President, to Lisbon, Portugal: meeting with the Olympic Committee of Portugal

During her official visit to Lisbon in Portugal, Roberta METSOLA, EP President meets with Marcelo REBELO de SOUSA, President of the Portuguese Republic at the Citadel Palace of Cascais.

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Debate on the Future of Europe with António COSTA, Portuguese Prime Ministe

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Participation of Roberta METSOLA, EP President to the Conference of Estoril "The World Ahead": opening exchange

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Lisbon, Portugal: Town Hall Meeting with Young People and Closing keynote address at the Estoril Conference

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Lisbon, Portugal: Meeting with Augusto SANTOS SILVA, Speaker of Assembleia da Republica

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Lisbon, Portugal: visit to the Lisbon Town Hall and visit to the Champalimaud Foundation

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President, to Lisbon, Portugal: meeting with the Olympic Committee of Portugal

Official visit by Roberta METSOLA, EP President to Lisbon, Portugal: meeting with Marcelo Rebelo de SOUSA, President of Portugal

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Participation of Roberta METSOLA, EP President to the Conference of Estoril "The World Ahead"

Participation of Roberta METSOLA, EP President to the Conference of Estoril "The World Ahead"

Participation of Roberta METSOLA, EP President to the Conference of Estoril "The World Ahead"

Participation of Roberta METSOLA, EP President to the Conference of Estoril "The World Ahead"

Participation of Roberta METSOLA, EP President to the Conference of Estoril "The World Ahead"

Participation of Roberta METSOLA, EP President to the Conference of Estoril "The World Ahead"