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  • Monday, 25 January, 2021
    Portugal’s president re-elected in pandemic-hit election

    Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa wins new 5-year term after polling proceeds under lockdown

  • Wednesday, 20 January, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Portugal suffers surging Covid-19 deaths after mastering first wave

    Country records highest seven-day average of new infections per inhabitant after Christmas easing

  • Friday, 1 January, 2021
    InterviewEuropean Union
    Portugal to use EU presidency to bolster bloc’s vaccination drive

    Foreign minister says this will be a priority as criticism mounts over slow pace of vaccination and infectious virus strain spreads

  • Tuesday, 29 December, 2020
    Pandemic reawakens Portugal’s debt crisis trauma

    More than two-thirds of the 360,000 jobs created in the past four years could be wiped out

  • Monday, 21 December, 2020
    Pandemic exposes cracks in Portugal’s ‘leftwing pact’

    Tensions over social spending and fiscal prudence are undermining informal agreement

  • Thursday, 26 November, 2020
    Sovereign bonds
    Portugal’s 10-year bond yield drops below zero

    Expectations that the ECB will expand its emergency asset purchase programme drives debt rally up

  • Friday, 30 October, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Perfect peace in Portugal

    The wide open solitude of Alentejo provides a surprising sanctuary after months of isolation

  • Thursday, 10 September, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Travellers arriving in England from Portugal face quarantine

    Hungary is also taken off the UK government’s list of safe countries

  • Thursday, 3 September, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    UK splits emerge over Covid-19 quarantine lists

    Scotland and Wales add Portugal and other countries, but England makes no changes

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  • Thursday, 20 August, 2020
    Travel & leisure industry
    Travel operators call for end to UK’s ‘stop-start’ coronavirus quarantines

    Frustration as Croatia, Austria and Trinidad and Tobago taken off list of safe destinations but Portugal added

  • Wednesday, 5 August, 2020
    How To Spend It
    The best late-summer getaways

    A Portuguese palace, a Turkish retreat, an Amazon adventure – and where camping is elevated to an art form

  • Wednesday, 15 July, 2020
    Prosecutors accuse ex-chief over collapse of Banco Espírito Santo

    Ricardo Espírito Santo Salgado faces allegations of fraud and money laundering

  • Tuesday, 7 July, 2020
    Ineos Group Ltd
    Ineos puts Welsh and Portuguese plants on hold as it eyes French site

    Talks to buy Mercedes-Benz factory in Hambach jeopardises 1,000 potential jobs in UK and Portugal

  • Monday, 6 July, 2020
    Energy sector
    Portugal utility chief suspended as part of corruption probe

    Judge orders EDP chief António Mexia to step aside as police investigate alleged bribery involving ex-government minister

  • Friday, 3 July, 2020
    Portugal blasts ‘absurd’ England quarantine measures

    Snub branded a ‘sad moment’ in relations between the two countries

  • Friday, 26 June, 2020
    Portugal nominates Mário Centeno as central bank chief

    Ex-finance minister expected to maintain Lisbon’s support of ECB’s ultra-easy monetary policy

  • Saturday, 6 June, 2020
    George Floyd protests
    US ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests go global

    Police killing of George Floyd sparks peaceful demonstrations around the world

  • Thursday, 4 June, 2020
    UK politics & policy
    European holiday destinations push for UK ‘travel corridor’

    Greece, Turkey and Spain among countries keen to welcome Britons from next month

  • Monday, 11 May, 2020
    FT AlphavilleClaire Jones
    Onshoring won’t protect us

    Despite the pandemic highlighting their flaws, we don’t think it’s time to scrap global value chains.

  • Sunday, 3 May, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    How Portugal turned back coronavirus tide that swamped its neighbour

    Swift action and extensive testing meant much lower death rate than in Spain, but fears grow of second wave

  • Friday, 27 March, 2020
    Spain
    Critics round on Spain’s response after record death toll

    Hopes of turnaround prove premature after brief respite in the rising number of fatalities

  • Friday, 27 March, 2020
    European prime property
    Hard times for Algarve’s luxury property developments

    Viewings and sales are down amid travel bans and Golden Visa reforms

  • Monday, 23 March, 2020
    Special ReportFT 1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies 2020
    Indie Campers hitches environmental ride with alternative to flying

    The Portuguese travel and leisure company plans further growth after coronavirus disruption

  • Friday, 6 March, 2020
    Travel
    A camper van adventure on ‘Portugal’s Route 66’

    Traversing the country from north to south, the Estrada Nacional 2 is enjoying a revival

  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2020
    Portugal to curb tax breaks for wealthy foreigners

    ‘Golden visas’ also under scrutiny in budget that will hit big earners

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