EU-BRAZIL Investment Dialogue

Geraldo Alckmin Meets with Spanish Companies to Discuss the Brazil–Spain Summit

The meeting brought together business leaders from the energy, transport, engineering, telecommunications, digitalization, technology, financial, and industrial sectors.

In preparation for the Brazil–Spain Summit, scheduled for the first half of 2026, Vice President and Minister of Development, Industry, Trade and Services (MDIC), Geraldo Alckmin, met this Wednesday (November 19) at Itamaraty, in Brasília, with the Spanish investment working group.

“The presence of sectors such as energy, transport, engineering, telecommunications, finance, insurance, industry, and technology demonstrates confidence in the partnership with Brazil,” highlighted the Vice President. “Investment is confidence translated into action, and the Spanish have demonstrated this confidence in Brazil for many years,” he stated.

Alckmin cited figures regarding the economic relationship between the two countries: “Spain is currently the second-largest direct investor in the country, with a stock close to US$60 billion and a significant presence in strategic areas of our economy. In bilateral trade, we recorded in 2025 a flow of US$10.8 billion, with a Brazilian surplus of US$4.4 billion.”

The meeting was chaired by Laudemar Aguiar, Secretary for Trade Promotion, Science, Technology, Innovation and Culture of Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Amparo Lopez Senovilla, Spain’s Secretary of State for Trade, and was attended by Mar Fernandez-Palacios, Ambassador of Spain to Brazil.

Representing MDIC, the meeting was also attended by Tatiana Prazeres, Secretary of Foreign Trade; Uallace Moreira, Secretary of Industrial Development, Innovation, Trade and Services; and Rodrigo Zerbone, Executive Secretary of the Foreign Trade Chamber.