Economy

Portugal has received the sixth tranche of European funding for its Recovery and Resilience Plan worth €1.35Bn according to the Ministry of the Economy and Territorial Cohesion. This sum includes [...]

The Euro Zone’s economy is on track to grow 0.9% in 2025 with Portugal’s GDP growing 1.7% in the same period according to a new study from KPMG. Despite KPMG’s forecasts of a slight recovery for [...]

Portugal stands out as the European country with the biggest increase in the growth of residential real estate transactions in the first half of 2025. According to the study from the Era Group [...]

The former boss of the UK’s Lloyds Bank, Sir Antonio Horta Osório says that any government surplus should be used to stimulate Portugal’s economy. The celebrity banker, in an interview with the [...]

In 2024, exports from Portugal to Germany increased by 17.9% to €9.76Bn despite the slowdown in the German economy. And with uncertainties in Europe and a continued trend to nearshore, that can [...]

Last week Portugal’s Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) paid out beneficiaries €81 million and approved applications for funds for 355 candidates according to the latest monitoring report. To [...]

Portugal’s tourism sector predicts a positive summer, expecting better results than 2024, but fears that the chaos at Portugal’s airports, particularly Faro and Lisbon, with TV and media images [...]

Mário Centeno, perhaps the best Governor of the Bank of Portugal the country has seen in 25 years, warned that continued uncertainty over tariffs could undermine growth in the Portuguese economy [...]

Expectations that Portugal can grow its economy beyond 1.6% for 2025 continue to be limited according to the Bank of Portugal’s May bulletin after its downward revision to 1.6% last week from [...]

Opinion: Chris Graeme He was competent, had good ideas, worked hard at bringing in new overseas markets for Portuguese companies, and identified failures in the speed and distribution of European [...]