If Portugal does not innovate and change its outdated education model it risks being the ‘Oklahoma of Europe’ warned a Nova SBE economist on Tuesday. Addressing business leaders at a lunch [...]

Portuguese economists predict that the government’s 2% growth target is feasible and could even reach 2% in line with Brussels forecasts. “After growth of 2.1% in the first quarter and 1.9% in [...]

A project involving 46 luxury tourist apartments in the heart of Lisbon has been unveiled. The Boulevard – Lisbon Apartments is in a refurbished turn-of-the 20th century building in the [...]

Work has begun on the Brazil Residences, a new luxury development for Cascais on the upmarket resort’s Avenida do Brazil. It comprises eight triplex town homes set in four residential blocks with [...]

The Portuguese Government is planning to set up a new national bank to provide companies with a credit line. The outline structural design of the new bank, which forms part of the Government’s [...]

Fears that the collapse of travel agents and package holiday company Thomas Cook could have a negative impact on hotels in Portugal’s Algarve holiday region were allayed last week on Sky News by [...]

Lone Star, the US vulture capital fund which owns Portuguese bank Novo Banco, is close to using up the €3.9Bn capital injection secured from the process of the sale of the bank created from Banco [...]

Faber Ventures has launched a new €30 million startups investment fund at Web Summit. Of this total amount, €15 million comes from the Portugal Tech and the Juncker Plan signed between the FEI [...]

A Portuguese startup which has developed smart lockups that can be used in urban and open spaces via an app has won this year’s Web Summit Innovation Award. Startup Bloq.it was selected as the [...]

One of Portugal’s largest high street banks has closed 14 branches in a rationalisation bid aimed at focusing services online. The bank, owned by the Spanish bank CaixaBank and employing 4,898, [...]