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Text: Chris Graeme; Photos: Fernando Bento, ICPT I must confess I didn’t know much about the guest speaker, Adalberto Campos Fernandes, at the lunch organised by the International Club of [...]

Portugal’s Minister for State Reform, Gonçalo Matias, says that Portugal is in a unique position to attract artificial intelligence to the industry the future. Speaking at the AI Summit 2026, [...]

Pedro Reis, the man who used to head Portugal’s overseas investment bureau AICEP Portugal Global has been officially sworn in as the AD coalition government’s new Minister of the Economy. At the [...]

  The intervention by the political thinker, writer, military hero and journalist Colonel Manuel Pedroso Marques at a lunch organised by the International Club of Portugal at the Sheraton [...]

Exports of Portuguese olive oil increased 36% in volume and 57% in value between January and October 2022. However, internal sales fell 14%on 2021 according to data provided by the Casa do [...]

Portugal’s public deficit continued to fall in 2021 compared to the same period in 2020. Public administration recorded a deficit of €6.652Bn to November 2021. This was an improvement of €2.2Bn [...]

The total debt burden per citizen/municipality in Portugal stood at €624 or 55.2% of total income in 2020 according to an index. 20 Portuguese municipal councils exceeded the limit of total debt [...]

The Bank of Portugal has finally given the green light to the appointment of the administrative board for Portugal’s new development bank Banco Português de Fomento. However, another [...]

Lisbon City Council ended 2020 with debts totalling €676 million, €52 million less than in 2019. “The Lisbon municipality is well prepared to confront the demanding post-pandemic times ahead, as [...]

Portugal’s public administration finances recorded a deficit of €1.153Bn to February 2021, a period marked by more restrictive measures to control the pandemic. This deficit compares to a surplus [...]