by Ekrem Duman | Sep 1, 2026 | Portugal Global Expansion & Lusophone Trade, Startup
⚡ TL;DRThe Lusophone world — Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé, East Timor and Macau — is Portugal’s most distinctive economic asset and its most frequently overstated one. Shared language, legal...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 1, 2026 | Portugal Global Expansion & Lusophone Trade, Startup
⚡ TL;DRPortugal has been one of Western Europe’s most open economies to foreign capital, and most of that openness dates from a specific period of fiscal necessity. Between 2011 and 2020 the country sold stakes in banks, utilities, grids, motorways and...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 1, 2026 | Portugal Global Expansion & Lusophone Trade, Startup
⚡ TL;DRBrazil is where Portuguese companies go for scale and where Brazilian companies and families come for European access. The flows run in both directions and serve opposite purposes: Portuguese groups in energy, hotels, retail and oil and gas seek a market...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 1, 2026 | Portugal Global Expansion & Lusophone Trade, Startup
⚡ TL;DRMozambique LNG, one of Africa’s largest energy projects, restarted in January 2026 after nearly five years of suspension. The consortium lifted force majeure on 7 November 2025, and TotalEnergies and Mozambique’s president jointly announced...
by Ekrem Duman | Sep 1, 2026 | Portugal Global Expansion & Lusophone Trade, Startup
⚡ TL;DRAngola was, for roughly a decade, the single most important foreign market for Portuguese business outside Europe. Post-war reconstruction funded by an oil boom drew Portuguese contractors, banks, retailers and distributors into a market where language,...
