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 [...]

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 [...]

The Portuguese Government which has been allocated a total of €16.6Bn from the EU’s Resilience and Recovery Fund is to allocate €3Bn of the total next year. “One of the key strategies for [...]

Portugal will today get 1.960 million units in Special Drawing Rights (SDR) worth around €2.3Bn in a proportional distribution of its share in the International Monetary Fund (IMF). According to [...]

The seasoned Portuguese political commentator, politician and lawyer Luís Marques Mendes reflects on the shifting geopolitical, economic and technological landscape which will define the next [...]

Portugal’s presidency of the European Council got off to an uncertain start. The transition period for Brexit ended on January 1, and Portugal and Europe were plunged into a second lockdown, but [...]