The head of government of Buenos Aires, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta will begin with an official five-day tour that will take him to the cities of Berlin and Hanover, in Germany; and to Madrid, in Spain, where he will meet with the European mayors of those cities, leaders in the business sector and sign projects on education, work and the reactivation of tourism.
The delegation left this Saturday for the old continent accompanied by the Secretary General and International Relations of the Buenos Aires government, Fernando Straface.
With this trip, the mayor of Buenos Aires will recover the international agenda that precedes his visit to the United States in September of last year, before the legislative elections. On that occasion, he passed through the cities of Washington DC and New York, and met with Felipe Jaramillo, Vice President of the World Bank for the Latin America and Caribbean Region, and with Mauricio Claver-Clarone, President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
On the first stop, in the city of Hanover, the head of government of Buenos Aires will tour the Hannover Messe trade fair, the largest industrial fair in the world, which attracts nearly 6,000 exhibitors and 200,000 visitors. There, he will meet with the CEO of Deutsche Messe, Jochen Köckler, who heads the global leader in organizing national and international investment goods fairs.
Rodríguez Larreta will then be welcomed in Berlin by Social Democrat Franziska Giffey, the woman who became the first female mayor of the German capital since December last year. The itinerary also includes a meeting with Michael Müller, member of the Foreign Relations Committee of the German Parliament and former mayor from Berlin.
Following the launch of educational practices in secondary schools in the City, one of the focus of the agenda in Berlin will be on the German “dual model”, which combines theoretical training in schools with practical instances in companies.
With this scheme under consideration, the PRO leader will also visit the ABB Vocational Training Center, where he will talk with the executive director, Gerd Woweries, students and union representatives. In addition, together with the head of the Berlin Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Daniel-Jan Girl, will visit the Stadler Deutschland GmbH to learn about the vocational training programme between the company and the chamber. In that context, he will sign a memorandum with German Accelerator, an organization that empowers German startups to scale globally.
In Madrid, the agenda will focus on the reactivation of international tourism. There he will meet with the mayor of the Spanish capital, José Luis Martínez Almeida and the president of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, both members of the Popular Party, representatives of the Spanish centre-right.
Rodríguez Larreta plans to sign an agreement with Iberian authorities to establish a cooperation link with the Buenos Aires Tourism Agency, with the aim of promoting the arrival of Spanish tourists to the City. Meanwhile, together with the Spanish Minister of Universities, Joan Subirats, he will sign a memorandum of understanding to promote the arrival of Spanish students to Buenos Aires within the framework of the Study BA program. In addition, he will meet with the president and director of the Ibero-American Business Foundation, Josep Piqué Camps and Miguel Angel Cortés Martín.
The tour includes an additional trip by Fernando Straface to Paris. In the French capital, he will hold a meeting with the head of Latin America of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), José Antonio Ardavin, and the organization's director of institutional relations, Andreas Schaal. The talks will focus on the incorporation of international standards of good public governance in the City Government in the face of Argentina's potential entry into the OECD, a desire that Mauricio Macri already longed for during his 2015-2019 term.
The return of the head of government of Buenos Aires is scheduled for Thursday 24, coinciding with the commemoration of the Day of Memory for Truth and Justice.
During his period of absence, the Buenos Aires government will be held by the first vice president of the Buenos Aires Legislature, Emmanuel Ferrario, since, at present, the position of deputy head of government is headless after the resignation of Diego Santilli, who was elected as a national deputy for the province of Buenos Aires in the elections of 2021.
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