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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10991

8 January 2014
ECONOMY - FINANCE / (ae) portugal
Karas, Portugal to exit aid programme before European elections

Brussels, 07/01/2014 (Agence Europe) - In Lisbon on Tuesday 7 January, the head of the European Parliament delegation investigating the work of the troika, Othmar Karas (EPP, Austria), said that Portugal would be able to exit its aid programme on 17 May 2014, just before the European elections.

The Austrian, who is EP co-rapporteur on the work of the troika with French Socialist Liêm Hoang Ngoc, was speaking after a one-and-a-half day inspection in Portugal, where the MEPs has met a number...