A Portuguese economist has warned that the Government’s plans to increase the national deficit by 1% to 2% would be folly. Joaquim Miranda Sarmento argues in the daily online news source ECO that [...]

The Government’s GDP growth rates of 1.7-2% have been downplayed by the President of the Portuguese Industrial Confederation. Speaking at a lunch in Lisbon organised by the International Club of [...]

Portugal is less competitive than it was last year according to the IMD World Competitiveness Centre. It fell six places to occupy 39th place out of 63 countries that were analysed using data [...]

Work will begin in July on a new international school for the Eastern part of Lisbon occupied by the former Expo 98 site – Parque das Nações. The United Lisbon International School is a €50 [...]

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut Portugal’s growth forecast from 1.8% to 1.7%. The cut is now in line with the growth forecasts of both the European Commission and the Bank of [...]

The Director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde believes that Portugal could suffer economic consequences as a result of the UK leaving the European Union. In an interview with [...]

The CEO of London-based Lloyds Bank, António Horta Osório, has suggested a cross-party pact to tackle the persistent problem of Portugal’s unsustainable public debt. The Portuguese banker who [...]

The leader of new Portuguese liberal-conservative party Aliança says that Portugal’s trumpeted economic success is illusory. Pedro Santana Lopes, who was briefly a prime minister of Portugal [...]

Portugal’s economy is continuing to grow and converge with the strongest economies within the European Union according to the Ministry of Finance. In 2018, Portugal’s GDP grew, in real terms, [...]

The Portuguese economy will continue to mirror the growth trend in the rest of the Euro Zone in 2019 and 2020. Presenting its Winter Forecast for Portugal it predicted that Portugal’s growth [...]