Androulakis to meet with Portuguese PM Antonio Costa on Monday in Lisbon
Opposition PASOK-KINAL president Nikos Androulakis will visit Lisbon on Monday, March 28, and will meet with Prime Minister and leader of the Portuguese Socialist Party Antonio Costa at 09:30 (local time).
Androulakis, at his meeting with Costa, is expected to focus on policies for the best use of the Recovery Fund, on Portugal's programme for building 26,000 residences to be rented to young couples using social criteria, in order to address the continuously increasing cost of housing, as well as ways to enhance the openness of small- and medium-sized enterprises.
Costa and Androulakis are also expected to discuss the need for a common European front against the energy crisis, the repercussions of the war in Ukraine and the new strategy that the EU must adopt regarding a Common Foreign Policy and Defence Policy.
A working lunch will follow at 12:30 with the head of of international relations Jamila Madeira. At 15:00 Androulakis will meet with Secretary of State for Internationalisation Eurico Brilhante Dias. At 16:00 he will meet with the Minister for Planning Nelson de Sousa. At 17:00 will meet with Portugal's Economy and Digital Transition Minister Pedro Siza Vieira and finally at 18:00 Androulakisi with meet with Housing Minister Pedro Nuno Santos
