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Portugal was the fifth fastest growing country in the European Union in the third quarter of the year compared to the same period last year. Eurostat revealed on Thursday that national GDP had a [...]

House prices in Portugal have shot up by 83% in real terms between the start of 2013 and the end of 2023 – an amount above Spain’s 23% for the same period according to a study published in [...]

Portugal’s Finances minister, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento says that Portugal must concentrate more on innovation and technology and less on tourism which now represents around 20% of the country’s [...]

Text & Photo: Chris Graeme Portugal’s technology startup market is too small to be anything more than a pilot according to Pedro Ribeiro Santos of Armilar Venture Partners who spoke at the [...]

Portugal is expected to close the year 2024 with €27Bn in tourist revenues and the prospect of 9% growth in 2025, the Secretary of State for Tourism said on Monday. “As of today we know it [...]

The National Association of Efficient Window Manufacturers (ANFAJE) has criticised the end of the Programme to Support More Sustainable Buildings (PAES+), warning that middle-class families will [...]

The European Investment Fund (EIF) will allocate €90 million to three Portuguese venture capital funds, with a view to accelerating the growth of startups in areas such as artificial intelligence [...]

Eighty percent of Portuguese ISAs or PPRs as they are called in Portugal, bring their beneficiaries next to nothing once charges have been levied. The average annual return on PPRs over the past [...]

The profits from Portugal’s main five banks could result in dividends of nearly €3Bn, exceeding the €2.4Bn paid out in 2023 according to a back-of-the-envelope calculation by business daily [...]

Portugal’s lifestyle quality, government support for companies wanting to set up in Portugal, measures to cut taxes and red tape, incentives for young people and development stimulation were all [...]