The European Commission released its Spring 2026 Economic Forecast on the morning of Thursday 21 May 2026 and trimmed its real-GDP projection for Portugal to 1.7% for 2026 and 1.8% for 2027, down from the 2.2% and 2.1% readings the autumn 2025...
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Brazilian buyers spent €65.8 million on luxury residential property in Portugal in 2025 through Porta da Frente Christie's International Real Estate alone, with Cascais capturing 22% of the high-value transactions the agency processed for the cohort...
The Banco de Portugal has approved only five gestores de créditos in the five months since the Lei 70/2024 regime governing the secondary non-performing-loan (NPL) market entered into force on 10 December 2025. ECO carried the count on Wednesday:...
The Socialist Party (PS) and the Social Democratic Party (PSD) closed ranks against a Chega motion to declassify the surviving Forças Populares 25 de Abril (FP-25) files and the parallel archive on the post-25 April far-right bombing networks, with...
A group of 40 foreign workers, the majority of them Colombian nationals recruited into Portugal's civil-construction sector, filed formal complaints with the Agência para a Integração, Migrações e Asilo (AIMA) over forged residency authorisations...
The pilots' union Sindicato dos Pilotos da Aviação Civil (SPAC) sharpened its position on the TAP privatisation on Wednesday, with president Hélder Santinhos telling Público that the bid from Lufthansa would create "um problema na estabilidade...
