Ukraine’s ambassador to Portugal Inna Ohnivets has been recalled to Kiev only days after making an impassioned appeal to business leaders to “help rebuild Ukraine” and defiantly stated that her [...]

Portugal’s minister of Finance, João Leão has predicted economic growth that will equal or exceed 5.5% in 2022. The minister said at a meeting of Eurogroup on Monday that growth had been so [...]

Portuguese ambassador to the UK, Manuel Lobo Antunes, had made a valiant bid to ‘save Portugal’s summer’ in terms of British visitors. Writing in The Telegraph, he stresses his “great [...]

Can the EU and US forge a shiny new relationship from one stained by steely trade disputes?   The excellent trading relationship overall between Western Europe and the United States formed [...]

President Joseph R. Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States today, hoping to mark an end to four years of turbulence and announcing a new era, on the very grounds where two [...]

Portugal took the helm of the European Union’s rotating six months presidency on 1 Jan for the fourth time since it joined the European Union in 1986. It laid out its priorities for the [...]

This year has been a year “like no other” said the Irish Ambassador to Portugal, Ralph Victory at the last meeting of the Irish-Portuguese Business Network (IPBN) on Thursday 17 December. While [...]

Transport and railways will be one of the main foci for Portugal’s presidency of the European Union which begins on 1 January 2021. It will be the fourth time that Lisbon has held the role since [...]

A economic flash-point is developing between China and the US over the Portuguese port of Sines reports the Sunday Guardian. The port near Setúbal, around 50 km south of Lisbon, is the closest [...]

In December last year the US ambassador to Portugal, George E. Glass, remarked in an interview that Portugal had increased its influence in the world and knows it. And if the second edition of [...]