Brussels, 26/11/2013 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 26 November, the Portuguese Parliament endorsed a draft budget for 2014 with nearly €4 billion of cuts, despite popular opposition.
Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, whose coalition government has a comfortable majority, is reported by Reuters as saying that, without the budget, the country would not be able to exit the aid programme on the scheduled date. . Civil servants will have their pay cut by between 2.5% and 12%, but...