Latest news and stories about economic strategy in Portugal for expats and residents.
Is a car from a French brand, designed in Paris, assembled in Morocco, and featuring a Korean battery, “European” enough? The answer to this question could reshape the EU's trade relations. Opinion by Cláudia Azevedo.
The single market guru should create a European “coalition of the willing,” says lawmaker.
Álvaro Santos Pereira also highlighted that the country must diversify its energy sources to avoid being dependent on geopolitical conflicts.
The President of the European Council advocates for greater European strategic autonomy in defence. António Costa identifies competitiveness and investment in science as priorities, and states that Portugal is in a position to overcome the “middle-income trap”.
EU leaders would be mistaken to look for trade relief in China as Canada does, and bargain away the continent’s industrial capacity in the process.
This agreement — dubbed 'the mother of all agreements' — is expected to double the EU's exports to India by 2032 and save around €4 billion a year in duties. It can and should form part of a broader European Union strategy in the Trump-centred era.
Three days before the Portuguese go to the polls to choose the next President of the Republic, the businesspeople interviewed by ECO outline the profile they would like to see in Belém: to be a mobiliser around a forward-looking strategy, to put the country ahead of party interests and to have the capacity to represent Portugal in a world that faces ...
