It’s not every day you get the chance to sample exquisite port wines that are a hundred years old or more. Essential Lisboa was invited by the oldest port wine brand in the world, Kopke, to taste [...]
US companies invested €2.1Bn in Portugal in 2023 becoming Portugal’s sixth biggest investor behind China with property representing around one-fifth of all new investments. The latest data from [...]
Portugal has followed the current global trend of issuing sovereign bonds at the start of 2024 because of a strong appetite from investors. Portugal’s treasury and debt entity, the IGCP put €4Bn [...]
EDP, one of the largest companies investing in wind energy worldwide, has announced that it will prioritise investments in around 20 growing markets or two-thirds of the countries where it has [...]
There has been a lot of talk in the overseas press that Portugal’s Golden Visa is dead; that is far from the truth. In 2023 many investors simply shifted from the property route which had been [...]
The CEO of Aurora Lithium – the company that plans to build a lithium refinery in Portugal – Manuel Sousa Martins, whose total investment value is between €700-800 million, hopes to [...]
The Portuguese private equity and asset management company Bondstone has set up Bondstone Investment Management, SGOIC. It will manage two separate investment subsidiaries with a portfolio of [...]
In the third quarter of 2023 overseas investors invested over €1.1Bn in Portugal’s real estate sector according to data from the Bank of Portugal . And in the first nine months of the year [...]
The live televised address on Saturday to the Portuguese people in which ‘caretaker’ Prime Minister António Costa apologised for recent events which shook the government and resulted in him [...]
The CEO of developers Casais, António Rodrigues, has blasted the government’s decision this month to terminate the Non-Habitual Residents scheme that provides tax breaks for wealthy EU-based [...]