One of the key aims of the EU project is to help the poorer members of the EU converge with the richer ones and as a result the EU has been throwing money at convergence (via the structural funds) for over 20 years or more; in most cases this has simply failied to...

Recently we have been doing some work supplying personalised workwear and uniforms from our partner business which has small factory in northern Portugal. The advantage that we can offer over many workwear suppliers in northern Europe is that we make all of our pieces...

Porto continues to attract companies from all round the globe as a location, particularly for tech development. Several previously industrial areas on the periphery of Porto have already been converted into office space and some new major projects will be finished...

The simple reason that Portugal’s economic growth over the last 20 years has been anaemic is that the country has been badly run; the paradox is that the dysfunctionality of the economy twinned with an avalanche of EU funding has made Portugal an attractive...

Portugal's economic history of economic growth over the last 20 years has been one of mediocrity regularly punctured by the truly awful. The global economic crisis that began in 2008 was pretty tough for most countries in the world, but the Portuguese economy only...

One benefit of being one of the poorer countries in Europe is that the EU keeps on throwing more money at Portugal, most of which is directed at businesses of all sizes who can contrive a means of fitting into a category deemed worthy of subsidising. Generally...