Venture capitalist Tim Vieira, CEO of Special Edition (Africa) and Bravegeneration (Europe) is a well-known TV personality who appeared on the first series of Shark Tank Portugal tells members of [...]
The commercial war between Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer and US manufacturer Boeing could pose a threat to aircraft component factories in Évora. The war broke out because of the [...]
Standard & Poor’s has reviewed downward the outlook for Portugal’s long-term ability to service debt over fears that the borrowing costs on the international markets needed to finance the [...]
The Business Association of Portugal (AEP) is to suggest a €10Bn plan to re industrialise Portugal. The AEP’s president Luís Miguel Ribeiro will present the Government with a major [...]
The Portuguese International construction company Mota-Engil has won a €636 million contract in Mexico. The contract, in partnership with China Communications Construction, will build the first [...]
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved the setting up of a pan-European guaranteed fund of €25Bn. Each Member State will be called upon to pay a part towards the fund which will enable [...]
Portugal’s Prime Minister António Costa says that the overseas investment earmarked for Portugal before the Covid-19 pandemic is still very much on the cards. In a podcast yesterday he said not [...]
Portugal has paid off all €26.3Bn of its IMF loan and will now pay off a further €2Bn to the EU by the end of the summer from its 2011 €78Bn troika bailout. In March, the Secretary of State for [...]
The Amorim family, which made its fortune in cork products, retains its position on Forbes magazine’s top rich list. With a fortune estimated at €4.1Bn, Maria Fernanda Amorim and family top the [...]
The former chief economist of the IMF, Olivier Blanchard, has told a Portuguese news agency that Portugal “has been lucky” despite its poor productivity record. In an interview with Lusa, [...]
