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Portugal’s National Association of Portuguese Municipalities is calling on the government to slash VAT to 6% on construction projects in Urban Regeneration designated areas. Business daily [...]

How can Portugal keep its tourism industry relevant to the latest trends and, at the same time, address the unique challenges that the sector faces? One body that aims to find the answers to [...]

Portugal’s government has pledged to embark on a programme of building affordable housing for rent at controlled building costs. And so it was fitting and timely that the Secretary of State for [...]

The Portuguese venture capital company Faber has launched its third fund with €60 million to invest in deep tech. Based in Lisbon, Faber has already made three initial investments in companies in [...]

Authorities should have stepped in quicker over GES problems says banker – and refuses to discuss €100 million loan to ESI The Chairman of bank BPI, Fernando Ulrich, called the loss of [...]

Exports from Portuguese-speaking countries to China increased by 2.6% in the first nine months of 2024, maintaining the best start of the year ever, according to official data. Exports reached [...]

The CEO of bank BPI, João Pedro Oliveira e Costa has criticised an increase on the annual contribution – basically a tax on the banks – that the sector has to pay to fund the [...]

The CEO of Novobanco, Mark Bourke, says he is optimistic that the bank will be able to soon reach an agreement with the Resolution Fund on the contingent capital mechanism. The fund has provided [...]

Portugal’s budget surplus was up €5,705,2 million to September according to data from the Directorate-General for the Budget (DGO). The surplus to August had been 11 times less – €475.4 [...]

Portugal’s economy is close to stagnation as exports are outweighed by imports With imports out pacing exports Portugal’s economy only just managed to keep its head above water in the third [...]