Portugal

By CHRIS GRAEME chris.graeme@theresidentgroup.com Final security preparations were underway in Lisbon this week for perhaps the most important NATO summit since the end of the Cold War which will define

Interest rates charged by international markets to buy Portuguese sovereign debt soared to seven per cent on Tuesday. The rate is the maximum psychological level beyond which, according to Portuguese

By PAULO SILVESTRE paulo.silvestre@theresidentgroup.com Aqua Portimão, a new shopping centre at Cardosas, near Portimão, is on track to open before Easter 2011 as planned. A spokesman from the Bouygues Real

By CHRIS GRAEME chris.graeme@theresidentgroup.com Portuguese banks have slammed a ratings cut by United States ratings agency Fitch as “unjustified”. Banco Espírito Santo (BES) has decided to cut its relations with

By CHRIS GRAEME chris.graeme@theresidentgroup.com Portugal and the People’s Republic of China have signed a 712 million Euro package of trade deals on the back of an official presidential visit. President

The Portuguese government’s decision to put plans for a TGV high-speed rail link between the Spanish border and Lisbon on ice could result in the loss of hundreds of millions

Interest rates on mortgages in the last three months have soared by 0.049 per cent per month.

By Chris Graeme chris.graeme@theresidentgroup.com In a further milestone commitment to being green, the British Embassy in Lisbon has installed a revolutionary new solar panel at its premises. The new, light

By CHRIS GRAEME chris.graeme@theresidentgroup.com Falling birth rates, the retirement of the baby boom generation and the economic crisis are threatening the future of the State pensions in Portugal. Within 25

by DAISY SAMPSON daisy.sampson@theresidentgroup.com PJ police have uncovered a cannabis factory near Lisbon during their investigation into the kidnapping of 26-year old father of two James Ross in early October.