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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10120
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/eurogroup

Portugal encouraged to keep to its stability programme - Luxembourg called to task over budget consolidation

Madrid, 16/04/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 16 April in Madrid, at the end of the informal meeting of the 16 countries of the eurozone, Jean-Claude Juncker declared: “Portugal is on the right track”. The commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, Olli Rehn, mentioned the ambitious nature of the Portuguese plan, which included concrete measures up to 2011-2013. He did, however, point out that “the starting point is what counts” and explained that if the short-term risks linked...

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