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EU OK's Portuguese government's spending plans

Portugal’s new socialist government has seen its first ‘anti-austerity’ budget approved by the European commission. Since 2013, the EU executive has

05/02/2016

Portugal

Portugal given back four public holidays

Four public holidays have been reintroduced in Portugal, two years after they were axed in an austerity drive. The new Socialist government obtained

08/01/2016

Economy

Will anti-austerity Portugal become the new Greece?

Is Portugal about to take the same path as Greece? That’s the question being asked as the country’s new Socialist government was sworn in promising

27/11/2015

Business Planet

Start-up city: why Lisbon is luring entrepreneurs

Lisbon has much to offer the multitudes of tourists who visit every year but it’s now also proving attractive to entrepreneurs. Under a special

13/11/2015

Portugal

Portugal's government precarious, income gap widens

As the cheering dies down, Pedro Passos Coelho’s victory is laced with defeat after Portugal’s legislative elections a few weeks ago (Oct. 4th). He

28/10/2015

My Europe Series

Bailout ballot: Portuguese election stokes austerity debate

The coming Portuguese general election raises themes of austerity, reform and growth that Europe has become all too familiar with in recent years

01/10/2015

Portugal

BES: angry savers clamour for their cash in Portugal

Angry customers clamour to get their savings back from the collapsed Portuguese bank Espirito Santo. It is a battle of “Davids versus a Goliath”

10/08/2015

World

Portugal weighs prizes and pain of four years of austerity

Portugal quit its 78-billion euro bailout scheme last May, having signed up to a rescue plan in 2011 as its borrowing costs soared. By 2012 they

15/05/2015

Real Economy

Leaner but meaner: the economic benefits and human costs of structural reforms

17/06/2014

World

Portugal's bailout is over, but not the austerity

17/05/2014

World

Growth the key in Europe says Portuguese president

14/06/2013