Socialist Party Prime Minister, António Costa wants to increase public expenditure progressively by 2021. But the European Mechanism, which marshals Euro Zone spending and tries to ensure Member States remain within the GDP ratio of 3% laid down in the Stability and Growth Pact (an agreement among the 28 member states to facilitate and maintain […]

The European Commission has given the green light for the sale of the Portuguese insurance company GNB – Companhia de Seguros (GNB Vida) to the British company APAX Partners LLP. The news was released by the EC which states that the deal has been approved on the back of the EU’s Merger Regulation which did […]

The Adega do Cantor winery’s Vida Nova Reserva IGP Algarve Tinto 2015 red wine has received the title of ‘Best Wine of the Algarve’ at the 12th Algarve Wines Competition held in Lagos on 9 June. The Adega do Cantor is the Algarve winery co-owned by 1960s and 70s UK pop singer Sir Cliff Richard. […]

Portugal is the third safest country in the world to live and work according to the Global Peace Index. Last year it climbed one place in the ranking to 3rd place. In 2013 it only took 18th place. This week, Portugal’s Minister for Internal Administration, Eduardo Cabrita, said that Portugal has evolved “very significantly” in […]