Red Tape

It’s finally happening! After 50 years – or probably even before if Portuguese early 19th century author and social critic Eça de Queiroz is anyone to go by -, a Portuguese government is [...]

Opinion: Chris Graeme; Photos: Diana Quintela/MARE/AmCham Portugal The Minister of Portugal ’s newly created Ministry of State Reform, Gonçalo Saraiva Matias, says that Portuguese companies are [...]

The President of the association Business Roundtable Portugal (BRP) has praised the government for being on the right track in tackling bureaucracy, but has signaled that it must “hurry up and do [...]

The CEO of US cloud computing company Cloudflare has lashed out against Portugal’s “unresolved bureaucratic problems” and has threatened to pull the plug on investment. The CEO of Cloudflare, [...]

Portugal’s Government saw a package with 30 tax simplification measures approved in its parliament on Thursday, according to business daily Jornal de Negócios. Most (80%) aim to reduce context [...]

The majority of Portuguese (57.8%) wait a year or more to get planning permission for building projects according to a survey carried out by online estate agents Imovendo. The company quizzed [...]

Entrepreneurs in Porto have called on authorities and municipal councils to cut the amount of red tape and time taken in approving real estate investments so that investors can invest quickly and [...]