Wearied by debt

Source:AFP Published: 2013-11-1 1:23:01

Portuguese Vice-Prime Minister Paulo Portas (left), flanked by Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, takes part in a Parliament session to vote the government's 2014 draft budget in Lisbon on Thursday. In return for bailout money to prevent the indebted country from financial collapse, the troika demanded economic reforms to get Portugal's public deficit down to four percent of output by 2014. Photo: AFP

Portuguese Vice-Prime Minister Paulo Portas (left), flanked by Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, takes part in a Parliament session to vote the government's 2014 draft budget in Lisbon on Thursday. In return for bailout money to prevent the indebted country from financial collapse, the troika demanded economic reforms to get Portugal's public deficit down to four percent of output by 2014. Photo: AFP



 

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