Editing Felipe VI (section)

===== Portugal =====
[[File:La reapertura de la frontera entre España y Portugal, Badajoz y Elvas, miércoles 1 de julio de 2020 (17).png|thumb|Relaxed talk between the heads of State and Government of Spain and Portugal in July 2020.|left]]
During the reign of Felipe VI, good relations between Spain and Portugal have continued. After his visit to the Vatican, Felipe dedicated his second foreign visit to Portugal, in July 2015.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|last=López|first=Virginia|date=2014-07-07|title=Felipe VI elige Portugal para su primera visita oficial porque "no podía ser de otra manera"|url=https://cadenaser.com/ser/2014/07/07/internacional/1404693921_850215.html|access-date=2023-10-08|website=Cadena SER|language=es|archive-date=13 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013172435/https://cadenaser.com/ser/2014/07/07/internacional/1404693921_850215.html|url-status=live}}</ref> There, he met with President [[Aníbal Cavaco Silva]] and Prime Minister [[Pedro Passos Coelho]], and stated that the relationship between the two countries was "not only the relationship of good neighbors, but of brother countries" and remembered that his grandfather, [[Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona]], chose Portugal to live while in exile.<ref name=":5" /> He also made it clear that he intended to keep the good relationship between the neighbor countries.<ref name=":5" />

After the election of [[Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa]] as new president of Portugal, he made his first official visit to a foreign country to Spain in March 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-03-17|title=El Rey Felipe recibe al presidente de Portugal en su primera visita a un país de la UE|url=https://www.europapress.es/nacional/noticia-rey-felipe-recibe-presidente-portugal-primera-visita-pais-ue-20160317201332.html|access-date=2023-10-08|publisher=Europa Press|archive-date=13 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013172440/https://www.europapress.es/nacional/noticia-rey-felipe-recibe-presidente-portugal-primera-visita-pais-ue-20160317201332.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The king, who had attended the inauguration of Rebelo de Sousa early that month,<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-03-09|title=El Rey Felipe viaja hoy a Lisboa para la toma de posesión de Rebelo de Sousa|url=https://www.europapress.es/nacional/noticia-rey-felipe-viaja-hoy-lisboa-toma-posesion-rebelo-sousa-20160309065940.html|access-date=2023-10-08|publisher=Europa Press|archive-date=13 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013172439/https://www.europapress.es/nacional/noticia-rey-felipe-viaja-hoy-lisboa-toma-posesion-rebelo-sousa-20160309065940.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and the Portuguese leader, had established a very good relationship, being described as a true friendship.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Alberola|first=Miquel|date=2019-02-24|title=La gran amistad del Rey y el presidente portugués|language=es|work=El País|url=https://elpais.com/politica/2019/02/23/actualidad/1550946116_783619.html|access-date=2023-10-08|issn=1134-6582|archive-date=13 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013172438/https://elpais.com/politica/2019/02/23/actualidad/1550946116_783619.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-03-12|title=El presidente de Portugal y Felipe VI confirman que son algo más que vecinos|url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20210312/6374164/presidente-portugal-reitera.html|access-date=2023-10-08|website=La Vanguardia|language=es|archive-date=13 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013172435/https://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20210312/6374164/presidente-portugal-reitera.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Reencontro de amigos: Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa recebe realeza espanhola|url=https://www.flash.pt/atualidade/nacional/detalhe/reencontro-de-amigos-marcelo-rebelo-de-sousa-recebe-realeza-espanhola|access-date=2023-10-08|website=flash.pt|language=pt-pt|archive-date=18 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201118023652/https://www.flash.pt/atualidade/nacional/detalhe/reencontro-de-amigos-marcelo-rebelo-de-sousa-recebe-realeza-espanhola|url-status=live}}</ref> In addition to courtesy and institutional visits, it is very common to see both leaders in each other's countries as well as attending various events led by the other. Examples of this good relationship are the support that the Portuguese president gave to the king when the monarch was awarded with the [[World Peace & Liberty Award]] from the [[World Association of Jurists]] in 2018,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Alberola|first=Miquel|date=2019-02-21|title=El Rey: "No es admisible apelar a una supuesta democracia por encima del derecho"|language=es|work=El País|url=https://elpais.com/politica/2019/02/19/actualidad/1550585655_508262.html|access-date=2023-10-08|issn=1134-6582|archive-date=13 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013172435/https://elpais.com/politica/2019/02/19/actualidad/1550585655_508262.html|url-status=live}}</ref> the private visit that Rebelo de Sousa made to Spain in 2020 to visit the [[Prado Museum]], and having a private lunch with the monarch at [[Zarzuela Palace]],<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-21|title=El rey almuerza con el presidente portugués en Zarzuela tras visitar el Prado|url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20200721/482460598996/el-rey-almuerza-con-el-presidente-portugues-en-zarzuela-tras-visitar-el-prado.html|access-date=2023-10-08|website=La Vanguardia|language=es|archive-date=13 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013172436/https://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20200721/482460598996/el-rey-almuerza-con-el-presidente-portugues-en-zarzuela-tras-visitar-el-prado.html|url-status=live}}</ref> as well as in 2021, when they were seen eating on a public terrace near the Royal Palace of Madrid.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-04|title=El Rey y el presidente de Portugal almuerzan en una terraza de la plaza Oriente de Madrid|url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20210604/7506502/rey-presidente-portugal-comen-terraza-palacio-real-madrid.html|access-date=2023-10-08|website=La Vanguardia|language=es|archive-date=13 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013172436/https://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20210604/7506502/rey-presidente-portugal-comen-terraza-palacio-real-madrid.html|url-status=live}}</ref>