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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10739

28 November 2012
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) portugal
Parliament votes through 2013 budget

Brussels, 27/11/2012 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 27 November, the Portuguese parliament voted through the country's budget for 2013, including new austerity measures to save €5.3 billion in public spending. Eighty percent of the savings will come from tax rises (rather than the initially planned controversial rise in social security contributions and fall in employer's social security contributions). The left opposition forces voted against the budget, but their votes were not needed to...

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