Foreign Direct Investment

In just a few decades Portugal has gone from the turbulent, unstable and chaotic country of the 1970s to the increasingly popular destination for tourists and investors alike of today. And in the [...]

The autonomous region of Madeira has suffered strong disinvestment since the start of a Brussels’ investigation into state aid to the Madeira reduced tax zone (ZFM). The Bank of Portugal [...]

Portugal is again losing ground when it comes to foreign direct investment (FDI) attraction, falling to 9th place in the EY Attractiveness Survey 2024’, being overtaken by Italy and Belgium in [...]

Akuo, the French company that was one of the winners of the first winners of the solar energy auction in Portugal, is to invest €1Bn in Portugal by 2032. Akuo is held by the French fund Ardian, [...]

In 2024, exports from Portugal to Germany increased by 17.9% to €9.76Bn despite the slowdown in the German economy. And with uncertainties in Europe and a continued trend to nearshore, that can [...]

Next year Portugal’s overseas investment agency AICEP will get three times more funding to attract more Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from €150 million now to €500 million. According to news [...]

The stock of foreign direct investment in Portugal rose to €183.9Bn in the 2nd quarter of 2024. Portugal’s direct investment abroad also increased to €67.6Bn. The FDI hit a new historic [...]

Portugal attracted 248 Foreign Direct Investment projects last year placing it in six position of the country’s in Europe that attracted the most projects. Germany was the country that made the [...]

China was Portugal’s fifth largest investor when it comes to overseas Foreign Direct Investment in the second quarter of 2023, responsible for 6.8% according to the Bank of Portugal. China [...]

Portugal has attracted €2.2Bn of inward overseas investment since the start of the year, according to the Minister of the Economy, António Costa Silva. The man who in 2020 was appointed [...]