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For international travellers looking to visit Portugal, or who have booked a trip that’s still under way, there is a new travel insurance program providing COVID-19-related coverage. Promoted by [...]

  Low cost airline Ryanair is to increase flight frequencies on 12 routes from the UK to Faro from September despite the fact that the UK may cancel its air bridge with Portugal after a [...]

Public acquisition offers (PAO) launched for Sonae Capital, Sonae Industria and Media Capital are threatening to reduce the number of companies listed on Portugal’s stock market Euronext. [...]

Portugal’s five main banks, CGD, BCP, BPI, Montepio and Novo Banco lent around €70 million over a four year period to the Portuguese electrical installations and technology company Efacec. The [...]

BES ‘Cooked the books’ The final report of an audit by Deloitte on the financial state of Novo Banco has placed the blame for the ruinous state of the bank’s finances squarely at the door of the [...]

Portugal’s economy was among that of five countries whose economic performance in the OECD which faired the worst in the second quarter of the year. The performance was based on statistics [...]

House prices in the historic center of Lisbon increased 2,9% in the first half of 2020 compared to the previous semester, according to the Price Index of the Historic Center of Lisbon published [...]

Portugal’s new investment bank Banco de Fomento will only be able to lend to companies that can prove that they cannot access funds in any other way. It forms one of a number of regulations or [...]

Despite all the early pandemic mutterings of Portugal’s need to reduce dependence on China, great space has been given this week to news of a ‘new impulse’ in Chinese-Portuguese relations. Jorge [...]

Portugal’s largest and most important construction company in terms of international reach and projects has sold 30% of its share capital to an “unspecified overseas player” in the same sector. [...]