Competition

Portugal has joined the second phase of the European Tech Champions Initiative (ETCI 2.0), a pan-European investment alliance aiming to mobilize up to €80Bn to transform over 1,500 tech scale-ups [...]

The Startup World Cup (SWC) Portugal has just revealed the 50 startups selected for the 2026 edition of the competition, which will take place on June 17th and 18th at Unicorn Factory Lisbon. The [...]

Following the success of its first edition in 2025, held at Unicorn Factory Lisbon, the Startup World Cup Portugal returns to Portugal. For this edition, Startup World Cup reaffirms its role as a [...]

If you wanted to get an overview of the startup ecosystem in Portugal than you couldn’t have done better than immerse yourself in the two-day Startup World Cup Portugal competition held at the [...]

Portugal’s Competition Authority (AdC) is investigating an increase in prices in the private health sector due to the recent mergers and acquisitions seen in the sector, with share acquisitions [...]

Last year saw the highest number of company mergers and acquisitions seen in a decade in Portugal. According to the Portuguese competition authority (Autoridade da Concorrência – AdC), [...]

The European Court of Justice has agreed with the Court of Competition that information exchanges between banks in Portugal, however isolated, amount to the behaviour of running a cartel, thereby [...]

The three main European airline giants, Lufthansa, IAG and Air France KLM, which have expressed an interest in buying a controlling stake in Portuguese airline TAP, are likely to make a bid in [...]

Portugal’s petroleum and gas company Galp practically doubled its profits in 2022, in part thanks to the instability in oil and gas prices that sent energy costs soaring after Russia’s invasion [...]

The European Commission believes that Portugal’s main banks have violated competition rules for 10 years by sharing information on volumes of credit and spreads that they were applying in a case [...]