Economy

The former boss of the UK’s Lloyds Bank, Sir Antonio Horta Osório says that any government surplus should be used to stimulate Portugal’s economy. The celebrity banker, in an interview with the [...]

In 2024, exports from Portugal to Germany increased by 17.9% to €9.76Bn despite the slowdown in the German economy. And with uncertainties in Europe and a continued trend to nearshore, that can [...]

Last week Portugal’s Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) paid out beneficiaries €81 million and approved applications for funds for 355 candidates according to the latest monitoring report. To [...]

Portugal’s tourism sector predicts a positive summer, expecting better results than 2024, but fears that the chaos at Portugal’s airports, particularly Faro and Lisbon, with TV and media images [...]

Mário Centeno, perhaps the best Governor of the Bank of Portugal the country has seen in 25 years, warned that continued uncertainty over tariffs could undermine growth in the Portuguese economy [...]

Expectations that Portugal can grow its economy beyond 1.6% for 2025 continue to be limited according to the Bank of Portugal’s May bulletin after its downward revision to 1.6% last week from [...]

Opinion: Chris Graeme He was competent, had good ideas, worked hard at bringing in new overseas markets for Portuguese companies, and identified failures in the speed and distribution of European [...]

Portugal’s net external debt fell to 43.9% of GDP in the first quarter of this year, the lowest level since December 2004, representing €126.9Bn, the Bank of Portugal (BdP) announced on Tuesday. [...]

A study from Bruegel has compared the effects of US tariffs on employment at a regional level in the European Union and suggests that the impact in the North of Portugal and the Algarve regions [...]

Economic growth in Portugal slowed to 1.6% in the first quarter compared to the same period in 2024 according to statistics published by the country’s National Statistics Institute (INE) [...]