Portugal

Portugal

Article | May 20, 2012 - 10:16pm

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) recorded an annual rate of change of 3.0% in April 2012. Excluding energy and unprocessed food, the annual rate was 1.7%.

Comment | Price indices

Price indices

More than half of Europeans see corruption in business as widespread

Article | May 10, 2012 - 12:32pm

More than 60% of Europeans believed that corruption was widely spread in the business of their countries in 2011 says a recent study conducted by Gallup International.

Comment | United States

United States

Portugal eyeing growth next year

Article | May 6, 2012 - 10:56pm

The Portuguese government is expecting to see growth in the economy next year and achieve about 2.5% growth by 2016. However this year the economy is expected to show contraction of about 3.3%.

Comment | Vitor Gaspar

Vitor Gaspar

Eurostat: Unemployment grows, youngsters remain vulnerable

Article | May 2, 2012 - 5:45pm

Compared to the US and Japan, it seems that Europe lags behind in offering job security and perspective for its population and young people in particular.

Comment | Unemployment

Unemployment

Portuguese current account deficit narrows sharply

Article | April 29, 2012 - 9:58pm

Data from the Portuguese central bank last week showed the country’s current account deficit decreased significantly in the first two months of this year.

Comment | Portuguese central bank

Portuguese central bank

Boycott of Carnation Revolution celebrations

Article | April 25, 2012 - 10:38pm

Comment | Politics

Politics

Bulgaria, France and Italy in top 5 European ‘Tours of a Lifetime’

Article | April 18, 2012 - 10:27am

The National Geographic Traveler magazine announced its seventh annual "50 Tours of a Lifetime" ranking which categorises the best cultural destinations around the world. Bulgaria, France and Italy are in the top five of the European countries.

Comment | Leisure

Leisure

Portuguese stake in Brazil operations lessens

Article | April 8, 2012 - 9:37pm

The company which is responsible for oil and gas exploration and production activities of Portugal’s Galp Energia in Brazil, Petrogal Brasil, recently sold off a 30% stake to Chinese oil group Sinopec, local reports revealed last week after completion of the transaction.

Comment | Portugal

Portugal

Eurozone: soon to be consolidated but long road ahead

Article | April 4, 2012 - 3:40pm

Capital markets and European Commissioner Ollie Rehn aired similar warnings today, Wednesday 4 April over the Eurozone’s sovereign debt problem.

Comment | Spain

Spain

Commission approves Portugal bank restructure plan

Article | March 27, 2012 - 1:17pm

On 27 March, the European Commission authorised the restructuring of Banco Portugues de Negócios (BPN), which has been the beneficiary of state aid since its nationalisation in 2008.

Comment | XML

XML

Greece to ‘help’ Eurozone out of crisis?

Article | March 22, 2012 - 2:00pm

Portugal is posing new problems for the European single money zone in heading the way of Greece – despite the tiny size of its economy in comparison to the Eurozone, the announcement by the Lisbon government that the country had suffered a tripling of its budget deficit during the first two months of 2012 was not the best news for...

Comment | the Wall Street Journal

the Wall Street Journal

New Greek bonds perform poorly

Article | March 13, 2012 - 12:01pm

Despite the fact that the Greek deal received the official green light from the EU council of the 17 Eurozone finance ministers the Eurogroup on 12 March, the 21 new Greek bonds that replaced the 80 old debt titles performed very poorly during their first day in the secondary market.

Comment | The Eurogroup

The Eurogroup