LONDON, May 22 (IFR) - The Portuguese government plans totap nearly all of its state-owned pension fund to ease it overthe hump of a hefty EUR27.5bn of financing needs over the nexttwo years, according...
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LAST YEAR, Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble labeled Portugal "the good pupil of the eurozone." Now, Portugal faces a difficult economic outlook. Unemployment, for example, has hit 18 percent. The coalition government of the Social Democratic Party and the People's Party is demanding more time to implement its austerity measures. What are the underlying reasons for Portugal's downward trend? Delete the scoop?
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Greece sees the launch of a new political party, Plan B, which supports leaving the euro and returning to the drachma. Delete the scoop?
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Finland's economic output declined by a moderate 0.4 percent in March from a year ago, as the decline in secondary production was partially offset by the improvement in services and primary production, Statistics Finland reported Wednesday. Delete the scoop?
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Millions of Italians cannot afford to heat their homes properly or eat meat as their country is racked by recessionand soaring unemployment, said a report which found the number of people considered seriously deprived had doubled in the past two years. The findings from national statistics institute ISTAT underline the scale of the challenge faced by the new coalition government of Enrico Letta, which has vowed to stimulate growth and tackle a youth jobless rate of almost 40 percent. Delete the scoop?
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The Financial Times and Wall Street Journal ran prominent pieces about bullish investors plowing back into Greek markets. On May 15, the Greek government’s borrowing costs on 10-year bonds fell by one percentage point, to the lowest level in three years.
Against this euphoria, the Greek statistics agency Elstat says the Greek economy contracted 5.3 percent in the first quarter of 2013 compared with a year earlier. This is the 19th consecutive quarter in which it has shrunk.
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Slovenia said it was confident its newly-adopted action plan would stabilise public finances and lead to an economic recovery, a day after ratings agency Fitch downgraded the crisis-hit country. "The consolidation of public finances will follow the objectives that have been clearly set," Slovenia's finance ministry said in a statement. "We will efficiently carry out all the necessary measures drawn in its stability and reform programmes."
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