The 2025 PME Líder roll named 14,133 well-run small and mid-sized firms that together turned over €63 billion, exported more than €10 billion and employed some 445,000 people. Sales rose 5.9% and profits widened, with commerce and northern industry leading a low-debt segment that keeps the economy g
Portugal's Competition Authority (AdC) was handed 99 merger notifications in 2025 and issued 100 final decisions — its busiest year since it was founded in 2003, with 11 more cases rolling into 2026. Cash-rich firms, private-equity funds and foreign buyers drove a wave of consolidation across retail
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Portugal's food-safety regulator ASAE is asking shoppers to read labels and report errors, part of the 23-country Safe4eat campaign. This year's focus: allergens, additives, nutritional and health claims — and what the law obliges every food label to tell you.
A free new platform, ForestDrought, maps the live moisture of forests across the Iberian Peninsula every day — bringing the water in living plants, not just dead tinder, into wildfire-risk models as Portugal endures its worst fire year since 2017.
The new head of Águas de Portugal says Almada's supply crisis is a warning for the whole country: about 27% of treated water leaks from ageing pipes that are being renewed at a pace that would take 180 years, even as a €5 billion plan and EU funds inch forward.
The week's most important Portugal stories, curated from our daily coverage. This week in Portugal: the stories that mattered most, from politics and the economy to housing, health, and culture. If you missed anything, start here. Euribor's Three-...
