Portal de Cartagena
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The acting mayor, Pilar Barreiro, held this morning a meeting with the Belgian ambassador in Spain, Johan Swinnen, visiting the city with the aim of strengthening ties and increasing trade relations, and makes it accompanied by the consul in the Region de Murcia, Juan Pedroza.
Swinnen, which carries two years in Madrid at the head of the Belgian Embassy has expressed interest in learning about different communities that make up Spain, in this case Murcia, Cartagena emphasis on the quality of its infrastructure.
In this regard, the ambassador has shown amazed our port, crucial for future transactions, which has been compared with that of Antwerp, and the Polytechnic University, considers it a perfect combination of tradition and modernity.
Currently, the Campo de Cartagena Belgian hosts several horticultural businesses and interest to settle in our area continues to grow.
As for the Belgian population who live in our region, today around 500, although not all are recorded at the consulate, so that the ambassador took the opportunity to make an appeal to formalize their situation, in order to improve quality of life.
Johan Swinnen not want to miss the opportunity to discuss the consequences of the crisis of cucumber for the agricultural industry in Spain, blamed the current situation of poor communication between countries.
The ambassador believes that the European Union is important, we support the Union, but would also be interesting to promote specific bilateral relations, for example, between Belgium and Spain, which already has a complicated history.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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