The campaign for the Lisbon City Council elections in September will likely be close but the pundits say it is a done deal for the current incumbent in city hall, Fernando Medina. First, Medina [...]

The Portuguese Government’s announcement that it would effectively interfere in fuel prices by fixing profit margins has stirred up a hornets’ nest with sector companies. The Minister for the [...]

Municipal and town councils must cut red tape and speed up planning permission for big-ticket international property investors with projects for Portugal. This will be one of the key messages of [...]

When Rita Marques was offered the outwardly glamorous post of what is perhaps the Portuguese government’s most sought after top job, tourism minister, it must have been a dream come true. Hard [...]

The Portuguese Industrial Confederation (CIP) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to set up the Saudi-Portugal Business Council. The aim of the business council is to boost the economic [...]

The new president of the Portuguese Association of Real Estate Developers and Investors (APPII) is Hugo Santos Ferreira. Santos Ferreira replaces Henrique de Polignac de Barros who had been at [...]

The American Chamber of Commerce in Portugal (AmCham) turns 70 this year, at a time when Portuguese exports to the US have hit a record high and Portugal heads the Presidency of the EU Council. [...]

The president of the Portuguese Association of Estate Agents and Real Estate Professionals (APEMIP) Luís Lima is to stand down. According to the property magazine Vida Imobiliária, Lima, who has [...]

The economist, one-time president of Novo Banco and head of financial payments processing company SIBS, Vítor Bento, is the new president of Portugal’s banking association APB. Bento will replace [...]

Portuguese companies think that economic recovery will take more than a year. Around 41% of Portuguese entrepreneurs believe it will take over a year for their companies to recover to business [...]