United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will receive the European Carlos V Prize in Spain on Tuesday at a ceremony presided over by King Felipe VI and attended by the President of the Republic and Prime Minister of Portugal.
The award ceremony will take place at the Monastery of Yuste, Cáceres, and alongside Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and António Costa, the High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, the Minister of Defense of Spain will also be present. , Margarita Robles, the Secretary General of the Ibero-American Community, Andrés Allamand, and the President of the Regional Government of Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara.
The list of personalities present at the ceremony includes 21 ambassadors to Spain from European and Latin American countries and the High Representative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, Miguel Ángel Moratinos.
The European Carlos V Prize recognizes the work of “people, organisations, projects or initiatives that have contributed to the general knowledge and improvement of Europe’s cultural, social, scientific and historical values, as well as to the process of European construction and integration”. according to the Foundation of the European and Ibero-American Academy of Yuste, which awards it.
This Spanish foundation has King Felipe VI as “Honorary President” and has already awarded this prize to two other Portuguese, former President of the Republic Jorge Sampaio (in 2004) and former Prime Minister and former President of the European Commission José Manuel Durão Barroso (in 2014).
Jacques Delors, Wilfried Martens, Felipe González, Mikhail Gorbachev, Helmut Kohl, Simone Veil, Javier Solana and Angela Merkel were other personalities who previously received this award.
António Guterres will receive the 16th European Carlos V Prize on Tuesday, which the jury awards to him “for his credible, broad and long life trajectory dedicated to social engagement, the process of European construction, the promotion of multilateralism and dignity at the core of his work. ” , addressing global challenges and crises”.
For the prize jury, the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) and former Portuguese Prime Minister “has been a fundamental figure in a period of unprecedented change and with dire consequences for Europe and the world”.
“With his tenacious work, he has promoted actions to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, address the climate crisis and deliver ambitious reforms to meet the challenges of the 21st century,” said the decision of the jury. known in March past.
The award of this prize to António Guterres will honor the President and Prime Minister of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and António Costa, for the first time since the public disagreement they adopted last week over the retention in the government of the Minister of Infrastructure, João Galamba .
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and António Costa arrive today in Cuacos de Yuste, where tonight a dinner will be offered by the King of Spain, closed to the media.
The award ceremony coincides with Europe Day, an event celebrated on May 9 on the occasion of the historic ‘Schuman Declaration’ [Robert Schuman, o ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros de França em 1950]”, considered the founding moment of the current EU.
Source: DN
