Portugal's economy explained: GDP data, market trends, business developments, inflation, real estate, and economic policy. Analysis of how economic trends affect daily life and expat finances.
The psychologists' professional body counts up to 40.5 working days a year lost or impaired per worker, and says prevention could save close to 4 billion euros annually.
The European Court of Auditors estimates 3.8 percent of 2025 EU budget spending broke the rules. It found no problems in the 30 Portuguese recovery plan milestones it checked, but one Portugal 2020 project is now with the European prosecutors.
The October Economic Bulletin credits a strong spring, EU recovery money and the pension and IRS measures. Jobs growth slows to 0.3 percent by 2028 as migration eases, and imports push the trade balance into deficit.
BPCE calls the investment friendly and long term, caps it at 9.9 percent and will explore cooperation with Sabadell until early 2027. The statement sets out no role for Novo Banco, the Portuguese bank it bought in April.
The regulator's draft has been with the government since June and would need a law. Shares, bonds and ETFs from across the OECD would qualify; retirement plans and crypto would not.
More households expect prices to rise faster over the next year than at any time since May, INE's September surveys show, while consumer confidence fell to -22.3 and firms in every sector plan to raise their own prices.
The richest 10 percent held 57.4 percent of Portuguese households' net financial wealth in 2025, roughly six points less than in 2005. Only Cambodia saw a bigger fall among the 57 countries in the Allianz Global Wealth Report 2026.
