Eduardo González
King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia will make a state visit to Denmark on November 6, 7 and 8 in response to an invitation from the Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II.
This is the first state visit of the King and Queen of Spain to Denmark since their accession to the throne. However, Don Felipe and Doña Letizia already traveled to this country on April 15, 2015 to attend the gala dinner that the Danish Royal House had organized at Christiansborg Palace to celebrate the 75th birthday of Margrethe II. Apart from that, the King and Queen of Spain coincided with Margrethe II in London on September 19, 2022, on the occasion of the State Funeral for Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, where they sat next to the King Emeritus and Queen Sofia.
The King and Queen will be accompanied by the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, and by a business delegation that will focus their visit on the areas of Danish-Spanish cooperation in areas such as green transition, the pharmaceutical industry and maritime transport, among others, according to the Ministry and the Danish Royal Household.
According to data from Foreign Affairs, the accumulated flow of Spanish investments in Denmark since 1993 and until 2022 has been 2,155 million euros. By sectors, the priority destination has been the manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products, telecommunications and the manufacture of electrical material and equipment. Denmark ranks 34th in the ranking of countries by Spanish investment position abroad since 1993. For its part, Denmark’s investment in Spain amounted to 27 million euros in 2022, with special interest in wind power production and real estate development. The cumulative flow of Danish investments in Spain from 1993 to 2022 amounts to 1,303 million euros. Denmark ranks 31st in the ranking of the largest investor countries in Spain since 1993.
In recent years there have been exchanges at the highest level between the two countries. The President of the Government (currently in office), Pedro Sánchez, received the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, in Madrid on February 21, with whom he agreed on his rejection of gas and nuclear energy being included in the European green taxonomy as “sustainable energies”.
Frederiksen herself received her Spanish counterpart in Copenhagen on 2 March this year, as part of one of the several tours made by the head of the Executive to various European countries to prepare the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the EU. On this second occasion, the two leaders signed a memorandum of understanding on green transition and to support renewable hydrogen, accelerate global investment in renewable energy and facilitate the adoption of green hydrogen.
