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Portugal once again stood out among the eurozone’s top-performing economies in the last quarter of 2025. Portugal saw its economy grow by 0.8% in 4Q – over double the eurozone’s average of [...]

Text: Chris Graeme; Photos: Chris Graeme/AmCham Portugal When diplomat Douglas Koneff, the Charge d’affaires at the US Embassy in Lisbon first started out on his diplomatic career he was given [...]

Portugal’s tech company Tekever is one of the companies selected to help the British armed forces to design a new generation drone that will support Apache helicopters in attack missions. Tekever [...]

Portugal’s luxury residential property segment with properties varying between €5 million and €15 million, a growth of 15% for the estate agent’s Porta da Frente Christie’s. The Portuguese, [...]

Portugal’s banks have never been so awash with money from savings in deposit accounts as they are now. The amount of money plowed into savings accounts increased 4.5% in 2025 to €8.3Bn for the [...]

The number of Portuguese taking out mortgages through banks in 2025 hit a 20-year high according to data released this Thursday by the Bank of Portugal with housing loans growing 10.2% last year, [...]

Portuguese companies believe that they will see exports rise 5.1% on average in 2026, expecting that the rate of overseas sales of goods will improve on 2025 despite international uncertainty and [...]

Half of the CEOs of 40 construction firms  that took part in the Construction Industry Barometer 2025 survey have given the thumbs down to the government’s public housing policies concludes a [...]

Straight-talking Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary has received a back-handed rebuttal from Portugal’s Minister of Infrastructures Miguel Pinto Luz after he said that Portugal’s government were [...]

Portugal’s Association of Chartered Accountants (OCC) says that the government’s outline bill to reduce VAT on construction for own permanent housing is “unworkable” as it currently stands. This [...]