Economy

Portugal’s Prime Minister, Luís Montenegro, says the government has a new investment plan – Portugal Transformation, Recovery and Resilience Plan (PTRR) which will inject around €22.6Bn [...]

Text and image: Chris Graeme Portugal’s cumbersome and lengthy licencing procedures are acting as a real barrier to attracting overseas investment, particularly US investment, in data centres, [...]

Since joining the euro in 1999 Portugal’s economy has grown at only around 1% per annum while it’s companies have relied heavily on European Union handouts. With growth currently at 2% and [...]

Portugal’s central bank governor, Álvaro Santos Pereira says it is to early to say if the government could end up in the red this year. The governor of the Bank of Portugal, who spoke at a lunch [...]

The ongoing war in Iran prosecuted by the United States and Israel, and now drawing in Yemen with the threat of closing off another second vital straight – ‘The Gate of Tears’ – into [...]

Portuguese high-technology exports reached a new historic high in 2025. In total, Portugal exported almost €4.1Bn of highly technologically intensive products, with emphasis on goods from the [...]

The escalating conflict in the Middle East is reigniting concerns among the CEOs of Portugal’s leading companies as they watch the effects of the crisis unfold on stock markets, the energy [...]

Finances Minister Joaquim Miranda Sarmento at AmCham Portugal Portugal has performed remarkably well in balancing its books, slashing the national debt, reducing taxes, and attracting big ticket, [...]

Portuguese economy debt fell in 2025 to 277.9% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the lowest value since records began, driven by the country’s strong economic performance, according to the [...]

Portugal’s exports and not consumer spending was what most drove the economy on the whole in 2025. According to data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) released on Friday, the [...]