Economy & Finance

THE GOVERNOR of the Bank of Portugal, Vítor Constâncio, said last week that the current government investment schemes would only bear fruit in the long term. The financial wizard stressed

THE OFFSHORE Island Review, chaired by a retired Treasury civil servant Andrew Edwards, was published in November 1998. Despite a diplomatic gesture in referring to the UK offshore islands as

THE EUROPEAN Union Savings Tax Directive (STD) came into force on July 1, 2005. There were 14 years of negotiations between Member States prior to its signing, along with plenty

Government measures as useful as aspirins for seriously sick patients MARQUES MENDES, leader of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), said recently in parliament that the current economic measures being taken

PROMOTING PROPERTIES in Portugal was one area responsible for the success of the Spanish Property Market in 2005. According to statistics published in a report by property consultants DBK, 89

THERE ARE several wars in this world of ours. For example, between men and women who are destined to misunderstand each other, since they want different things. Another war is

Why British expatriates need to be prepared for pensions A-Day AS PART of the UK Pensions Simplification proposals, important changes have taken place that British expatriates should be aware of.

PORTUGAL’s HIGH-speed rail project, linking Lisbon to Porto and Madrid, should create 100,000 jobs over two years. The numbers were revealed by the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications