Politically, Rubió y Lluch defended Greek aspirations for Crete and, in 1897, inspired by Prat de la Riba, he wrote a manifesto of the Greek cause in the name of the institutions of Catalan civil life. He was recognised as honorary Greek consul at Barcelona for eight years and received the Greek decoration of "Knight of the Order of the Saviour"). He was made an honorary member of the Parnassos Literary Society.
