Euro Weekly News - Axarquia 18 - 24 July 2019 Issue 1776
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EWN 27 June - 3 <strong>July</strong> <strong>2019</strong> www.euroweeklynews.com FEATURE<br />
Simon Manley creating our future together.<br />
CELEBRATING TOGETHER: The strong links that unite the UK and Spain.<br />
EWN celebrates Queen’s birthday<br />
at the Embassy in Madrid<br />
Michel and Steven Euesden with Simon Manley and his wife, Maria Isobel.<br />
All fields were represented at the event.<br />
BRITISH Ambassador to Spain, Simon<br />
Manley, extolled the excellent<br />
relationship between the UK and<br />
Spain, both inside and outside the<br />
EU, at a special ceremony last week.<br />
He said, “We must create our future<br />
together,” during his last celebration<br />
of the Queen’s birthday in<br />
Madrid, as his six years in Spain<br />
comes to an end in August.<br />
More than 700 people celebrated<br />
the strong links that unite the UK and<br />
Spain at the Queen’s Birthday Party,<br />
a party to celebrate the 93rd birthday<br />
of Queen Elizabeth II, who in <strong>2019</strong><br />
also celebrates 67 years as sovereign.<br />
The party took place in the British<br />
Ambassador’s official residence in<br />
Madrid under the banner of ‘Creating<br />
our future’ and brought together personalities<br />
from the worlds of politics,<br />
business and society, such as the<br />
Minister of Science, Innovation and<br />
Universities, Pedro Duque; the Secretary<br />
of State for Tourism, Isabel<br />
Maria Oliver; the Congressional<br />
spokesperson for Ciudadanos, Inés<br />
Arrimadas; and the Vice-President of<br />
Banco Santander, Matías Rodríguez-<br />
Inciarte.<br />
In his welcome address, HMA Simon<br />
Manley underlined the excellent<br />
ties between both countries and<br />
called for the continuation of this<br />
special relationship in the future.<br />
“We have shared challenges such<br />
as climate change, the ageing population,<br />
Islamist terrorism and the digital<br />
revolution. Inside or outside the <strong>Euro</strong>pean<br />
Union we have to tackle them<br />
together,” emphasised the Ambassador.<br />
Spain and the UK have trade flows<br />
of more than €62,000 million per<br />
year. More than 300,000 UK nationals<br />
live in Spain and nearly 200,000<br />
Spaniards live, study and work in the<br />
UK. Academic ties and the collaboration<br />
between security forces in the<br />
fight against drug trafficking and terrorism<br />
are also very strong.<br />
This was the last Queen’s Birthday<br />
Party in Madrid for Simon Manley<br />
who, in August, will hand over to the<br />
new Ambassador Hugh Elliott, who<br />
has been Director of Communication<br />
in the Government’s Department for<br />
Simon Manley talking to Pedro Duque.<br />
Exiting the EU, and the Foreign and<br />
Commonwealth Office.<br />
“I am grateful to the Spanish people<br />
for their collaboration and help,<br />
and I confess that this has been the<br />
best job of my life,” adds Manley.<br />
Simon and Maria Isabel cut the cake.<br />
Illustrious celebrations<br />
EWN owners Michel and Steven Euesden were personal<br />
guests of British Ambassador to Spain, Simon<br />
Manley, at the illustrious celebrations of his six years<br />
in residence in honour of HM Queen Elizabeth II’s<br />
birthday.<br />
The Euesdens were among 700 plus people honoured<br />
with an invitation to a reception and party in Madrid last<br />
Thursday, during which the Ambassador praised the<br />
strong relationship between Spain and Britain and<br />
thanked the Spanish Forces for their continued efforts in<br />
the safekeeping of the population of Spain.<br />
Michel said: “We are proud to be British and so thankful<br />
to be living in Spain. What a brilliant combination, a<br />
fantastic community, fabulous mixture.”<br />
The guests joined Simon Manley and his wife Maria<br />
Isabel as they marked the last time he will celebrate the<br />
Queen’s birthday as Ambassador.<br />
Wishing the Queen a happy birthday, Michel added:<br />
“The British Ambassador Simon Manley and his fantastic<br />
team throughout Spain have done the Queen proud.<br />
“Congratulations to the Embassy and Consulate, who<br />
have really shown our Spanish friends how to party.”<br />
The video summary of<br />
the party is available on<br />
YouTube and the photos<br />
can be downloaded from<br />
Flickr.<br />
Using the hashtag<br />
#QBPMadrid<strong>2019</strong> on<br />
Twitter and Instagram<br />
you can see everything<br />
related to the party. The<br />
Embassy has just<br />
launched its official<br />
Instagram channel<br />
@ukinspain.