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Portugal’s former Prime Minister, António Costa has been given the green light to take up the post of President of the European Council. He will join Ursula von der Leyen as head of the European [...]

Portugal has been given two months by Brussels to action an EU law that stipulates that multinational companies must pay a minimum of 15% taxes on their profits. So far, Portugal has failed to [...]

The Irish finance minister and president of the Eurogroup of EU finance ministers, Paschal Donohoe, has praised Portugal for its “dedication” in carrying out its Recovery and Resilience Plan. [...]

Portugal is at risk of becoming even more peripheral because of EU enlargement in Eastern Europe. This is the opinion of former minister of Foreign Affairs, António Martins da Cruz, who argues [...]

Portugal’s seven largest banks must submit a report to the European banking supervisor containing detailed data that will enable Brussels to evaluate the risk of high interest rates on their [...]

The President of Eurogroup – the EU Body which unites all of the finance minsters in the European Union – Pascal Donohoe made a whistle-stop visit to Lisbon on Tuesday where he met [...]

The European Commission has advised that Portugal should meet European Council recommendations to draw up an “economical” budget. The advice is part of a raft of comments in a document published [...]

The European Commission has announced that Portugal would receive a further €1.634Bn in grants for Portugal’s RRP. (Recovery and Resilience Programme) The announcement that it would get an extra [...]

The European Commission has approved the payment of €1.16Bn to Portugal to finance its national Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP) of which €554.4 are grants and €609 million are loans. European [...]

The 6th European Union (EU) – African Union (AU) summit took place in Brussels in an environment of wanting to perform and implement everything that the covid-19 pandemic has been postponing. The [...]