Mauricio Macri and King Felipe VI will meet with businessmen to open new bilateral ventures

March 26, 2019

After the Gala Dinner, the President and Monarch will hold a working breakfast with leaders from both Chancery countries.

President Mauricio Macri and the Kings of Spain, Felipe VI and Letizia, will meet businessmen on Tuesday. Argentinian and Spanish to strengthen new bilateral case. Spain is one of the country's main partners and has maintained a budget surplus over the last five years.

Under the call "High Level Breakfast on Business Opportunities between Argentina and Spain" King Felipe VI and Mauricio Macri will participate in this event, which will take place at 9 am at the Chancery headquarters. In addition, it will include the participation of executives from both countries. The event will also feature the presence of Foreign Minister Jorge Faurie, and his Spanish counterpart, Josep Borrell, as well as other senior officials and local authorities.

Then, the agenda of the Spanish kingship will continue with a business meeting organized by Cotec Foundation (dedicated to innovation), at the headquarters of an Iberian telephone company.

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At 13, kings will lead La Rural a mbadive meeting with the Spanish communityand the night Felipe VI will offer a dinner to the Argentine authorities in the restaurant of a luxury hotel in Buenos Aires.

Currently, there are 300 Spanish companies present in Argentina, which employ some 96,000 people according to private figures cited by the Spanish newspaper El País.

According to data from Indec, in 2018, Argentina exported goods to Spain for an amount of US $ 1,390 million, while Spanish products were delivered to it in the amount of $ 1 billion $ 331 million. . In the last five years, bilateral trade has only been positive, with a peak of US $ 727 million in 2016.