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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10823

10 April 2013
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) portugal
Freezing of non-vital spending - more measures on way

Brussels, 09/04/2013 (Agence Europe) - Four days after the constitutional court in Portugal ruled that some of the measures in the country's budget for 2013 were illegal, Portuguese Finance Minster Vitor Gaspar said the government had decided on Tuesday 9 April 2013 to freeze non-essential public spending. The decision was taken to make up in part for the lost savings arising from Friday'scourt ruling, rendering illegal the scrapping of civil servants' and pensioners' 14th month bonus and...

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