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Rangel criticizes "anomaly" of European Affairs supervised by Costa
The Portuguese head of diplomacy highlighted today the "good news" that European Affairs have returned to the supervision of the Foreign Ministry, criticizing the "pathological anomaly" of two years under the authority of the previous prime minister.
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For Paulo Rangel, in his first hearing by the parliamentary committee on European Affairs, removing this portfolio from the Necessidades Palace, as the then Prime Minister António Costa did in his last term, was "a serious mistake".
"Portugal has always had European success with the organization it had and 21 of the 27 States [of the European Union] have this organization", said the Minister of State and Foreign Affairs.
The measure of the previous government reveals, he argued, a "total misunderstanding of something that is evident: European diplomacy is not only the diplomacy that is done in Brussels, it is also bilateral diplomacy".
Rangel defended the need for Portugal to be "in connection" with the countries of cohesion, the countries of Southern Europe, the countries of the Atlantic, the countries of medium size.
"We have two diplomatic machines working in a schizophrenia that makes no sense", he considered.
Paulo Rangel recalled that António Costa recently addressed this change in organization by the new executive, "saying that it was a catastrophe".
In his first opinion article in Correio da Manhã, published last Saturday, Costa referred to the change: "European Affairs have even returned to the MNE [Ministry of Foreign Affairs], as if they were 'foreign affairs'...".
"It is said that it 'comes from Europe', as if Portugal were not Europe, or 'Brussels decided', as if we did not participate in the decision. (...) The majority of European legislation must always be voted by the Government that represents us and by the MEPs that we elect", considered the former leader of the Government.
In the parliamentary hearing, the socialist deputy João Paulo Rebelo replied to the minister that "at the very least, the doctrine is divided" and that "more and more people recognize that European Affairs are much more internal politics".
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