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When it comes to fat cat salaries in the banking sector, you would think that the bank with the highest profits would pay its CEO the highest salary to reflect that performance. But State-owned [...]

Portuguese private bank Bison Bank doubled its profits in 2025 to €5 million its CEO, António Henriques announced at a press conference today. Henriques said that the bank had enjoyed its “best [...]

Portugal’s immigration office continues to be beset by a crisis of confidence as complaints against the institution climbed 36%. The number of complaints against AIMA (Agency for Integration, [...]

Lisbon closed the (election) year of 2025 with a positive budget balance of €142.3 million, almost six times higher than the €24.6 million recorded in 2024, in a year in which the city council [...]

Production of automobiles in Portuguese factories grew 32.6% in March, year-on-year, to 38,852 units, according to data from the Portuguese Automobile Association (ACAP), released this Tuesday. [...]

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) revised its estimate for Portuguese economic growth downwards on Tuesday, from 2.1% to 1.9% for this year. This forecast represents a downward revision of [...]

Text: Chris Graeme; Photos: ICPT Fernando Bento. With a raft of structural reforms to Portugal’s tax and legal systems, a reduction in bureaucracy, and the introduction of more flexible working [...]

Portugal’s Minister of Labour reiterated her defence on Tuesday of three measures in Portugal’s labour law reform that have generated the most controversy from unions: outsourcing, individual [...]

The inflation rate accelerated to 2.7% in March, 0.6 percentage points higher than in February, mainly reflecting the increase in fuel prices, the National Statistics Institute (INE) announced [...]

Rent prices per square meter increased by 5.1% in March compared to the same month in 2025, 0.1 percentage points less than in February, with all regions registering year-on-year growth, the [...]