"It is undeniable that balanced accounts are a necessary condition for stability, but they are not enough to transform the economy. Portugal needs a strategy that goes beyond budgetary discipline: public policies that encourage talent, promote innovation, simplify bureaucracy and strengthen internationalisation."

At the conference on the State Budget for 2026, the Dean of Católica Porto Business School, João Pinto, had already set the tone. Read now his latest opinion piece in the Deans’ Corner of Jornal de Negócios: available here (in Portuguese).