The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, continues his trip to the San Francisco Bay Area on Tuesday, where he will visit a Corticeira Amorim factory and watch a baseball game.
This Tuesday morning, before the official program, the Head of State I should watch the game of the Portuguese soccer team against Spain in a Portuguese restaurant for the group stage of the League of Nations, which is scheduled for 11:45 a.m. (7:45 p.m. in Lisbon).
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Then, at 2:00 p.m., Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa will visit the Corte Amorim factory in Napa ValleyCalifornia wine country, returning to San Francisco mid-afternoon for a ceremony at the consulate general of Portugal.
This Tuesday’s program of the President of the Republic, who arrived in California on Saturday for five days dedicated to contacting Portuguese emigrants and descendants of Portugueseit ends with a baseball game between the San Francisco Giants and the Colorado Rockies, celebrating the so-called “Portuguese Heritage Night”.
On Monday night, this morning in Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa met with dozens of Portuguese who have founded new companies or have management and business management positions in California, the richest state in the US.
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The head of state thanked them “for what they were doing for Portugal”, in a speech in which he made a “pessimistic analysis” of the situation for the coming times, taking into account the effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but also highlighted the positive data from Portugal, which he presented as “a very, very open economy”.
I would like to thank you, but at the same time tell you that you can play a fundamental role in the Portuguese economy”, he declared, considering that “whoever advances first has a huge comparative advantage”.
On Monday afternoon, the President of the Republic attended a seminar at the recently created Faculty of Sustainability at Stanford University, with which he said that he hoped that Portugal would take advantage of the opportunities for academic cooperation.
The ambition is to have 60 new professors participating and working only in the area of sustainability,” Inês Azevedo, an associate professor at Stanford University, who was involved in the creation of this new faculty, told reporters, which, she stressed, is intended to “ organize solutions that can be used by the private sector and industry”.
On the university campus, the head of state met with some Portuguese students, including Joana Santos, 25, who came to the United States at the age of 16 to play basketball, continues her studies at Stanford and dreams of working in the Formula One. 1, and João Araújo, 24, who admitted that he would like to return to Portugal to “start a school of artificial intelligence”.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa lamented that in his time as a university student these opportunities to study abroad did not exist.
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He has the possibility of becoming a visiting professor at a university on the East Coast of the United States, after his presidential term ends: “I still have time, I am not that age, I am 50 years behind.”
The Head of State is accompanied on this visit to California by the Secretary of State for the Portuguese Communities, Paulo Cafôfo, and the deputies Eurico Brilhante Dias, the parliamentary leader of the PS, João Moura Rodrigues, of the PSD, Rui Paulo Sousa, of Chega, and Pedro Philippe Soares. , parliamentary leader of BE.
Source: Observadora
