Economy

Overseas, Portugal is gaining a reputation for good financial housekeeping with budget surpluses in recent years, a pay down on the national debt to 89.7% of GDP, robust exports, and a thriving [...]

Portugal’s Minister of State and Finance, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, expects economic growth of 2% in 2026. The minister gave his forecast to the Budget, Finance, and Public Administration [...]

Portuguese exports reached €79.3 billion in 2025, reflecting the growing role of international connectivity in supporting the country’s economic performance. From road, maritime and air [...]

The Portuguese economy has fallen to 40th place in the IMD’s global competitiveness ranking, which assesses 70 countries. Of the four pillars analysed, Portugal only improved in ´Economic [...]

Three months after the last economic forecasts, and after an equal period of the Persian Gulf blockade, the Bank of Portugal (BdP) continues to expect a GDP increase of 1.8% this year, leaving [...]

Portugal’s Minister of Finance, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, said that the Portuguese economy has demonstrated “enormous resilience” in the post-pandemic period, with the capacity for [...]

The arrival of Nvidia chips at the Start Campus data center in Sines contributed to strong investment growth in Portugal in the first three months of the year according to news source ECO today [...]

Tourism continues to be one of the driving forces of the Portuguese economy, and it was the first time that more than €2Bn billion were raked in for March. The British continue to be the biggest [...]

One of Portugal’s top bankers has lamented that Portugal is unlikely, in his opinion, to grow its economy sustainably more than 2%. Miguel Maya, the CEO of high street bank Millennium bcp, said [...]

The former governor of the Bank of Portugal, Mário Centeno, has rejected the argument that the country suffers from a high unemployment rate among young people because of Portugal’s inflexible [...]