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One of Portugal’s leading business associations, the Enterprise Confederation of Portugal (CIP) is to launch artificial intelligence training programmes for 50,000 companies covering some 500,000 [...]

The government is to receive €1.7Bn from the sale of Novobanco – at least going a small way towards compensating the estimated €8Bn that the banking sector and tax payers had forked out to [...]

Mercan Properties has marked its debut in Greater Lisbon with the opening of the Moxy Alfragide Lisbon in an investment worth €63 million. The hotel, which has 218 rooms and is managed by AHM [...]

Portugal’s centre-right PSD party won the majority of councils in Sunday’s municipal council elections with the opposition socialist party PS coming in second place, and the independent [...]

Unicorn Factory Lisboa has just announced the finalist startups and entrepreneurs for the Entrepreneurship Awards 2025 – an event that pays tribute to the founders, startups, and leaders in [...]

Portugal’s State Budget for 2026 foresees a general reduction in IRC corporation tax to 20% and a reduction to 16% on the first €50,000 of profit for SMEs and SMCs. This is in line with [...]

Lisbon is among the top European cities when it comes to European venture capital investment in defence tech companies according to the report ‘State of Defence Tech 2025’ from Dealroom that [...]

There are only two Portuguese startups that have made it on the ranking ‘Sifted 250 – The Fastest-growing European Startups in 2025’. They are sheerMe and Bloq.it. sheerMe has developed  a [...]

Portugal’s Finances minister Joaquim Miranda Sarmento pledged a 3.6% increase for employees when he unveiled the government’s outline State Budget for 2026 on Thursday. And the minister pledged a [...]

Portugal’s new governor of its central bank, after saying he wouldn’t’ be expressing political opinions, did exactly that in his first public speech since taking office on Friday last week. [...]