New Portugal Government To Deal With Economy

by Sylvia Poggioli, NPR
June 3, 2011

The people of Portugal vote in an election Sunday to choose a new government to replace the one that collapsed over its unpopular austerity program. Portugal is deeply in debt, and has promised to make unpopular changes in welfare and labor policies in return for a massive bailout by the IMF and the European Union.

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