At the beginning of the new semester, the Department of Romance Studies had the great honour and pleasure of welcoming the Spanish ambassador and exchanging ideas with Señora Mejía Errasquín . Students and teaching staff had the opportunity to talk to the highly experienced diplomat from Madrid, who has been working as ambassador in Vienna since 2024 after many international assignments, and discussed the situation of Spanish in Austria and Styria in particular. The fact that Spanish-speaking cultures are very much alive in Graz and are intensively cultivated by very talented students, especially at the Institute of Romance Studies, was demonstrated not least by the musical performance of Spanish poems set to music. In order to achieve even more for the promotion of Spanish and for the presence of the associated cultures in Austria, it was decided to join forces to mobilise the great potential of the world language in this country.
¡Muchas gracias por su visita, y hasta la próxima en el Departamento de Románicas, estimada Embajadora!