The European Parliament will also be represented by the President, Roberta Metsola.
The information was provided by the respective press services.
The flags of the Council of the European Union, the European Commission and the European Parliament, the main EU institutions, are today flown at half-mast in memory of the Pope.
Pope Francis' funeral ceremonies will be held on Saturday morning at 10 am local time (9 am in Lisbon) in St. Peter's Square, the Vatican announced today.
The coffin will then be transferred to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in central Rome, where the Pope will be buried, the statement said.
Pope Francis died on Monday at the age of 88, from a stroke, after 12 years of pontificate.
Born in Buenos Aires on December 17, 1936, Francisco was the first Jesuit and the first Latin American to reach the leadership of the Catholic Church.
His last public appearance was on Easter Sunday, at the Vatican, on the eve of his death, after being hospitalized for 38 days due to bilateral pneumonia and being discharged on March 23.
Portugal has decreed three days of national mourning.
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