\n By Euronews\n<\/p>\n
\n Published on 10\/12\/2025 – 16:47 GMT+1
\n \u2022Updated
\n 17:15\n <\/p>\n
Portugal has quietly turned into the eurozone\u2019s star performer, topping The Economist’s 2025 ranking of global economies.<\/p>\n
It earned this distinction based on inflation, gross domestic product, jobs, and market data from the world\u2019s 36 richest countries.<\/p>\n
The southwestern European economy was described as being “as sweet as a pastel de nata”, a reference to the staple Portuguese custard-based pastry.<\/p>\n
“Portuguese investors have done well, too, with the stockmarket rising by more than 20% in 2025,” the ranking highlighted.<\/p>\n
Portugal was followed by Ireland and Israel. Spain, last year\u2019s winner, now shares fourth place with Colombia, followed by the Czech Republic and Greece \u2014 underscoring a broader trend of accelerating growth in southern Europe.<\/p>\n
“Other members of the eurozone that faced difficulties in the 2010s, including Greece (our winner in 2022 and 2023) and Spain, are also among the frontrunners,” reads the article.<\/p>\n
Central and Eastern European countries such as Slovakia, Finland, and Estonia are at the bottom of the ranking.<\/p>\n
On social media, Prime Minister Lu\u00eds Montenegro said the ranking “reinforces the government’s motivation to continue on the path that has brought us here in recent months”.<\/p>\n
“It is by reforming with courage and making the country more competitive and productive that we will continue to create jobs, increase wages and strengthen the welfare state,” the Portuguese Prime Minister added.<\/p>\n
Government forecasts point to economic growth of 2% this year and 2.3% next year.<\/p>\n
Despite the good news, the country faces dissatisfaction around housing costs<\/a>, as well as labour and employment, with a general strike called on 11 December.<\/a><\/p>\n The Order of Economists estimates that the general strike could cost the Portuguese economy between \u20ac600-700 million, in a scenario where half of the workers join the strike. That’s according to figures quotedby SIC Not\u00edcias.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Euronews Published on 10\/12\/2025 – 16:47 GMT+1 \u2022Updated 17:15 Portugal has quietly turned into the eurozone\u2019s star performer,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60,2888,6306],"class_list":["post-185471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-portugal","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}