The President of IPDAL was invited and participated, in Madrid, in the ABC International Conference “Europe and America, before the exchanges”. The conference took place on February 23rd, at the Ritz Hotel in the Spanish capital. The inaugural conference was given by European Commissioner Joaquín Almunia and the Vice-President of the Spanish government, Pedro Solbes was the Speaker at the Lunch. Paulo Neves participated in the panel “Strengths and weaknesses of Latin America in the face of the crisis”. Bankers, managers and diplomats with interests in Latin America participated in this Conference.