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The Banco Português de Fomento (BPF) gave the green light to 160,000 guarantees to 140,000 companies for €42Bn in the first half of 2025. The development bank made the announcement on Thursday [...]

The Brisa Group, which runs many of Portugal’s motorway concessions and pioneered the cashless electronic Via Verde toll payments system in the 1990s, is in exclusive negotiations for the total [...]

The successor to Mário Centeno at the helm of the Bank of Portugal could be announced as early as next week following a meeting of the Council of Ministers today. (Friday 18) Or he or she could [...]

The Mayor of Oeiras – one of Portugal’s wealthiest municipalities – has called on the Portuguese government to get more involved in solving Portugal’s chronic affordable housing [...]

MVGM, a European leader in property management, is reinforcing its digitalisation strategy in Portugal, positioning itself in the vanguard of technology innovation in the proptech sector. With [...]

Researchers at Coimbra, Algarve and Évora universities have joined forces with companies for a project that will shortly present the first prototype of a super healthy bread with antioxidant and [...]

The renewables energy company of Portuguese origin, Greenvolt, which had 12 energy communities by June 2024, and now has six more, plans to increase that number to 120. Energy communities enable [...]

Lisbon’s metro company Metropolitano de Lisboa has received four bids to build, supply the rolling stock and maintain the Odivelas-Loures light railway which will be called the Violet Line. [...]

The future of TAP is back on the agenda in Portugal’s parliament this week as the airline’s part-privatization kicks off. Portugal’s Minister of Infrastructures, Miguel Pinto Luz, told MPs that [...]

Changes to Portugal’s Foreigners Law were approved today by MPs in Portugal’s parliament thanks to votes from the PSD, Chega and CDS parties. However, the changes were hotly contested with [...]