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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10568

7 March 2012
ECONOMY - FINANCE / (ae) portugal
Portuguese deficit is not the same as Spain's

Brussels, 06/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - Portugal will not be making any changes to its deficit reduction targets and will therefore not be following Spain's example, said Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coehlo on Monday 5 March. Portugal has been in receipt of international aid since May 2011 and is expected to see its economy shrink faster than expected this year, but the prime minister says it will meet its target of reducing its deficit to 4.5% of GDP in 2012, bringing it below the...

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