The Business Association of Portugal (AEP) is to suggest a €10Bn plan to re industrialise Portugal. The AEP’s president Luís Miguel Ribeiro will present the Government with a major [...]
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved the setting up of a pan-European guaranteed fund of €25Bn. Each Member State will be called upon to pay a part towards the fund which will enable [...]
Portugal’s Prime Minister António Costa says that the overseas investment earmarked for Portugal before the Covid-19 pandemic is still very much on the cards. In a podcast yesterday he said not [...]
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 [...]
