Portugal’s finance ministry is confident that Portugal’s public finances are on the right track. With just two weeks to go before the end of the year, the Finance minister, João Leão, said that [...]
A former Portuguese minister of the Economy was arrested this week after being quizzed by the country’s criminal investigation department DCIAP. Manuel Pinho, who spent the night at a PSP police [...]
Portugal’s public debt has decreased for the fourth consecutive month to its lowest value since January. It had shrunk by €310 million in October to €271.1Bn — the lowest value since January this [...]
Portugal’s Prime Minister António Costa said that the country will never see convergence with the wealthier countries in Europe until it abandons its reliance on a low wage economy. Speaking at [...]
Portugal’s most famous international banker, António Horta Osório, has warned that rising interest rates could threaten the economy. Horta Osório, who took over as non-executive president of [...]
Portuguese economists have ruled out, for the time being, a situation of stagflation in Portugal’s economy. Stagflation is characterised by slow economic growth and relatively high [...]
Plans for Lisbon’s new international airport have stalled because of a mixture of incompetence and a lack of political will from political parties to come together and make it happen. This is the [...]
A former transport minister under the José Sócrates government which ran until 2011 who is currently a candidate to lead the Portuguese Association of Economists, will address the International [...]
A former president of Portugal’s overseas investment and trade organisation, AICEP, Pedro Reis, says that the country’s governance is bankrupt of new ideas on how to break two decades of anaemic [...]
The European Commission has revised Portugal’s growth for 2021 upwards to 4.5% and 5.3% for 2022. In the four months since it last reviewed Portugal’s economic growth, it revealed on Thursday [...]
