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In a bid to attract talented young Portuguese living overseas back to Portugal, the Government is offering a 50% income tax incentive for three to five years. During the economic crisis between [...]

Economy of the Sea in Portugal is worth a total of €4.2Bn in gross added value (GAV) according to data from the Annual Economic Report on the EU Blue Economy 2018. It represents 2.6% of GAV for [...]

Creating a European Union-wide banking union will be long, painful and result in Portugal no longer having a financial system according to a constitutional lawyers and financial expert. Pedro [...]

Nobel Prize economist Jean Tirole told digital Portuguese newspaper ECO – Economia online that while Portugal’s economic indicators have improved, it should not declare a victory because [...]

The Canadian ratings agency DBRS has upgraded Portugal to BBB Stable. The upgrade reflects DBRS’s assessment that Portugal’s outlook for public debt sustainability has improved. [...]

Portugal’s total economic debt has soared to its highest level since September 2017 – €721Bn. February was the second month running that the debt had passed the €720Bn. Portugal’s total [...]

Portugal has set an objective to reduce its public debt to 102% of GDP by 2022. On Friday the Minister of Finance, Mário Centeno, who is also President of the Eurogroup of EU finance ministers, [...]

Portugal is enjoying good times with growth in industrial exports at 10%, foodstuffs at 15% and tourism at 19%. But the country’s challenge is to retain Portugal’s young and highly-qualified [...]