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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10911

31 August 2013
ECONOMY - FINANCE / (ae) portugal
Passos Coelho rules out fresh tax increases

Brussels, 30/08/2013 (Agence Europe) - The Portuguese constitutional court has ruled as being against the Portuguese constitution a draft law to facilitate the dismissal of civil servants.

This decision obliges Pedro Passos Coelho's Centre-Right government, which has only just recovered from a political crisis, to find new savings to compensate for what the court has rejected. “We will find other solutions which will perhaps not be the best, but which will resolve the issue”, assured...