Brexit

A no-deal Brexit is expected to impact on Portugal’s economic growth by anything between 0.6% and 1.6% reports the weekly Algarve Resident newspaper. Different forecasts are given by Jornal [...]

Portugal’s ambassador to London, Manuel Lobo Antunes, said over the weekend that “in hard, cold and rational statistical terms” Britain’s exit from the European Union “doesn’t make sense” while [...]

Former vice-president of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore has slammed British politicians as “cowards” for not allowing a second referendum over Brexit. The remarks were [...]

The Portuguese government has given the green light to a Contingency and Preparation Plan should the United Kingdom crash out of the European Union on 29 March in a hard Brexit. The Portuguese [...]

The Portuguese government has taken a step further in the event of the UK’s increasingly likely departure from the European Union without a deal. The Council of Ministers has approved a raft of [...]

Unfettered by pride in its six centuries-old alliance with England under the Treaty of Windsor, Portugal is standing by its continental European partners in their response to the UK’s shambolic [...]

As the United Kingdom is Portugal’s fourth most important client in terms of exports and most important for services, the Government’s current priority is to avoid chaos as a result of Brexit. [...]

Government creates emergency credit line to help Portuguese companies in the UK market The decision by Britain’s House of Commons to roundly defeat Prime Minister Theresa May’s EU Brexit deal has [...]

Continued uncertainty over the status of Portuguese nationals living and working in the United Kingdom and fears of economic collapse are leading more and more Portuguese citizens to leave the [...]

The hotel sector in Portugal is less optimistic about 2019 because of the BREXIT effect according to the sector. For the first time in many years Portuguese holidaymakers outstripped foreign [...]