Porto and the north of Portugal are proving to be magnets for overseas investment according to a study from InvestPorto and Ernst & Young. In 2018, Foreign Direct Investment created 2,754 new [...]

The Portuguese government says that contracts worth nearly €2Bn in direct foreign investment will be signed in the coming months. The DFI will mostly be in the car component, aeronautics and [...]

Luso Blum, a subsidiary of the Austrian multinational Julius Blum which makes furniture fittings, has just invested €1.5 million in revamping its premises in Porto’s Vila Nova de Gaia as part of [...]

Portugal is the third safest country in the world to live and work according to the Global Peace Index. Last year it climbed one place in the ranking to 3rd place. In 2013 it only took 18th [...]

The leader of Portugal’s centre-right opposition party, the PSD, called for a simplification of Portugal’s complicated tax laws to encourage overseas investment. Addressing a select number of [...]

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS) may have arrived in Portugal too late according to a Portuguese law firm. Marta Pontes, a partner of the firm Uría Menéndez – Proença de Carvalho, told [...]

As his five-year tenure in Brussels ends, Carlos Moedas, the European Union Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation expresses the need for a Capital Markets Union during a lunch [...]

Overseas investorsInternational investors considering operating in the Portuguese market should seek local partners. This was a widely held opinion at Portugal GRI 2019 which saw investors, [...]

The Chinese Minister of Natural Resources Lu Hao visited the Port of Sines on Friday with a large committee as part of the congress ‘Oceans Meeting 2019’ which opened on Thursday in Lisbon. [...]

The rising price of gold as a hedge against volatile markets has earned the Bank of Portugal €500 million on its gold reserves. The gain on the reserves, which have remained unaltered, has been [...]