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The price of renting a home per square metre increased 4.9% in December, 2025 like-for-like on 2024 and registered an annual average increase of 5.3% for 2025 according to data released by the [...]

Following the January 2 deadline to present intentions to compete in the TAP part-privatisation race, Europe’s three largest airline groups Air France-KLM, IAG and Lufthansa now have April 2 to [...]

The Socialist Party’s António José Seguro has clipped ahead of other front-runners in Portugal’s presidential race which culminates on election day on Sunday, 18 January. The leader of the PS [...]

Portugal’s government says that one of the country’s largest unions, the CGTP has abandoned negotiations over a controversial labour reform. Portugal’s recent labour reforms, proposed in [...]

The number of passengers passing through Portugal’s airports was up 5% in November like-for-like on 2024 to 5 million. This is according to Portugal’s National Statistics Institute (INE) which [...]

Portugal’s parliament approved overall a housing package on Friday aimed at alleviating the country’s chronic housing shortage and accessibility for the middle classes, particularly the young. It [...]

Portugal’s trade deficit widened by around 15% in the first nine months of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. It means that in a year plagued by a high degree of economic and geopolitical [...]

Novo Banco has withheld about €1 billion from Venezuelan companies – money that was blocked to Venezuelan public companies in 2019, ​Expresso revealed this Friday.  Some €300 million has [...]

The Business Confederation of Portugal/business school ISEG’s monthly barometer for December 2025 has confirmed Portugal’s end-of-year economic buoyancy and expects an uptick in the [...]

One of Portugal’s largest business and industry associations, the Business Confederation of Portugal (CIP) has forecast that Portugal’s growth is on track to hit 2% this year. The organisation [...]