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Portugal’s slow, cumbersome, over-complicated and archaic judicial, administrative and tax systems are so inadequate and hostile to business and society that they are actively frightening [...]

Text: Chris Graeme; Photos: Fernando Bento, ICPT I must confess I didn’t know much about the guest speaker, Adalberto Campos Fernandes, at the lunch organised by the International Club of [...]

Text: Chris Graeme; Photos: ICPT Fernando Bento. With a raft of structural reforms to Portugal’s tax and legal systems, a reduction in bureaucracy, and the introduction of more flexible working [...]

Portugal’s Minister of Labour reiterated her defence on Tuesday of three measures in Portugal’s labour law reform that have generated the most controversy from unions: outsourcing, individual [...]

“Yesterday, March 26, 2026, at the ICPT Elective Assembly, I accepted the enormous and honorable responsibility of assuming another 5-year term leading this institution founded in 2006. To [...]

The Portuguese hygienic paper producers Renova, famous for introducing black toilet paper under the slogan ‘the sexiest toilet paper in the world’, has announced its expansion to Norway, Denmark, [...]

The trusted British economy current affairs magazine ‘The Economist’ voted Portugal as the economy of the year in 2025*, largely down to its financial discipline, prudent public spending, low [...]

  “We have to keep the Russians contained within their borders.”  – Defence expert and presidential hopeful Admiral Henrique Gouveia e Melo at a lunch organised by the International [...]

Against the background of a looming General Strike, the Liberal Initiative (IL) party candidate for Portugal’s January presidential elections addressed the International Club of Portugal on [...]

  Roberto Martínez, one of the leading lights in UK football over the first 15 years of this century, addressed members of the International Club of Portugal on Tuesday to talk about his [...]