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The second Democratic Alliance (AD) government headed by Prime Minister Luís Montenegro has created a new ministry devoted to State reform. The government, which won the General Election in [...]

It’s full steam ahead for the privatisation of Portugal’s State-owned airline TAP with the rules of the game set for potential buyers. This is according to the Secretary of State for [...]

Novobanco is working with consultants to have everything ready for a stock market floatation or IPO (Initial Public Offer) for the second half of this month. That, of course, provided its main [...]

The execution of many projects that have received European Union funding through Portugal’s Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) are in a “critical state” with 20% of the projects behind schedule. [...]

Growappy, Equivalence and Usawa Care were the winning startups in the social innovation competition ‘Lisboa Innovation for All’ organised by Unicorn Factory Lisboa and Lisbon Municipal Council. [...]

House prices in Lisbon increased 5.9% in 1Q of this year QoQ according to the Index of Residential Prices from Confidencial Imobiliário. It was the biggest quarterly increase in eight years, the [...]

Online digital bank Revolut is to open an office in Portugal this summer with an ambition to become the “main bank” for Portuguese clients according to the news agency Lusa quoting the bank’s [...]

Greenvolt, the renewables company with Portuguese DNA founded by energy entrepreneur João Manso Neto in 2002, has sold its 231MW eolic and solar portfolio in Spain for €195 million. The sale of [...]

China’s ambassador to China has announced “ideas” that Chinese car manufacturers could set up assembly line factories in Portugal. Chinese electric cars are widely seen as among the most [...]

Text: Chris Graeme; Photos: Chris Graeme & ESA It’s not every day that you get the chance to meet and interview an astronaut, especially given that since and including the first manned space [...]