Due to the success achieved by the Egyptian Council for Sustainable Development’s missions that took place to Georgia, Armenia, Belarus and Lithuania, in contributing towards enhancing the bilateral trade relations. CEBC members had the desire to participate and get the wheel of production turning and tap new channels and bring new countries in the spotlight where a lot of opportunities could be achieved.

Accordingly and in the pursuit of setting off the memorandum of understanding signed between the Egyptian Council for Sustainable Development (ECSD) and the Embassy of Portugal and in light of having both parties work on strengthening relations and developing reciprocal cooperation. The Egyptian Council for Sustainable Development arranged a Roundtable Discussion with H.E. Ambassador Antonio Tanger Correa, Ambassador of Portugal to Egypt to highlight “Portugal….As a Land of Opportunities”

Ambassador Correa gave a presentation about Portugal in general in terms of Portugal’s geography and the strategic added values of this prominent asset. He also talked about the difficult years the economy faced and the improvement on competitiveness that the Portuguese achieved and the revisiting of the economical structure and labor force as well as the infrastructures.

During the question and answer session that followed the presentation, issues were raised covering the general business climate and the potential investment opportunities in addition to the tax incentives.

One of the very interesting incentives discussed thoroughly during the session was the Golden Visa Program, its advantages and benefits.

Eng. Motaz Raslan, Chair of the ECSD also highlighted the importance of the business missions that the Council organizes and its main goals which is aiming at opening those nontraditional markets before the Egyptian products.

Raslan also mentioned that holding meetings with ECSD members’ counterparts as well as the political figures and decision makers in both countries is of major importance in pushing the wheel of bilateral cooperation ahead.