Today had Prime Minister José Sócrates, the Portuguese parliament, the Assembleia da República, the opposition MPs to answer questions about his yesterday's visit to Berlin, where German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
came true Sócrates and Merkel meeting next Wednesday in the German capital to discuss the current economic situation in Portugal, as well as be taken by Portugal fiscal consolidation measures have been but the transition to Berlin must José Sócrates really like a journey to Canossa .
Chancellor Merkel, the Portuguese economy and remediation extremely critical faces, had up to last strong doubts that Portugal alone, without foreign intervention exempt from the debt hole into which the country has maneuvered could.
But Socrates seems to have convinced the chancellor believes that Portugal has been very successful in efforts to curb borrowing. Finally, Portugal 2010
has its own objective to reduce the national deficit to 7.3% of gross domestic product not only met but exceeded!
wants after a negative record of around 9.4% in 2009 and in 2010 reached 7.3% Sócrates scale down the deficit now in Portugal in 2011 to 4.6%.
And because the Chancellor has to be convinced (probably they wanted to get rid of the guest from Portugal just, finally, that day was her defense minister resigned to Guttenberg, and she now knows God other things to think she had !...) could now sit with Prime Minister Sócrates his smug and cynical grin the entire opposition and pretend as if he would be the best statesman in the world.
But one has given him Chancellor Merkel on the way: In the 11th for the March 2011 planned informal meeting of Heads of State and Government of the euro zone will have to Portugal and Germany join forces! For
a must for all times be ensured that the euro stability fund or any successor arrangements for support to countries in financial difficulty must be used, without ifs and buts, so as not to endanger the euro!
The most economically difficult ailing Spain now says ever "Thank you" ...
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