Insurer Real Vida saw 17% growth in 2019 compared to 2018 although its branch Vida which represents 98% of its business, fell 14% in Portugal. With a distribution based on insurance [...]

The Covid-19 crisis has hit Portugal’s tourism industry hard, not least for the Martinhal luxury family hotels Elegant Group owned by Chitra and Roman Stern, but Chitra tells Essential Business [...]

EU finance ministers have agreed a €500bn rescue package for European countries stricken by the coronavirus pandemic. The chairman of the Eurogroup and Portuguese finance minister Mário Centeno, [...]

New doubts have been cast on the viability of Lisbon’s second international airport project on the city’s south bank of the River Tagus. The company responsible for managing Portugal’s airports [...]

Merlin Properties, one of the largest real estate funds on the Iberian peninsula, is to scale down the amount of dividends it will pay out to shareholders because of the Covid-19 crisis. At the [...]

The European Commission has given the green light to countries struggling as a result of the Covid-19 crisis to recapitalise their companies “as a last resort.” The new measure was suggested by [...]

Portugal’s 11 casinos have seen their gaming revenues plummet by 65% for March 2020 because of the social restrictions and economic uncertainty caused by Covid-19. Income for March stood at [...]

Portugal’s Minister for Infrastructure and Housing had harsh words to say to opponents trying to scupper plans to build a new secondary international airport on the South bank of Lisbon’s River [...]

With the US elections on the horizon, Alan Draper, Professor of Political Science at St. Lawrence University, Ambassador Francisco Seixas da Costa, former Permanent Representative of Portugal on [...]

The employee-owned equity compensation management firm Global Shares scooped the 2020 Irish-Portuguese Business  Network Awards in Lisbon on Thursday. The company, which is based in West Cork [...]