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Portugal Will Exit Bailout in May

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Portugal is confident it will exit its bailout program on May 17 but the economic recovery still has a way to go, the Portuguese secretary of state for European Affairs told CNBC.

“We’re very confident we can exit the program,” Bruno Maçães told CNBC Europe’s “Squawk Box.” His country was not, however, a poster child for austerity, he said.

“It has been a very difficult process and in fact, I’m not sure we want to talk about ‘success’ – unemployment is still very high and people have suffered a lot from the process but we did what was necessary and so the country came together to do what was necessary.”

Maçães said he and the government were confident that Portugal would exit its bailout program on May 17, but said the exact conditions of its exit from its 78 billion euro ($106.6 billion) bailout program were unknown.

“It’s important to wait for news about growth in 2014 which we’ll get in a few months or now and to see if our economic recovery is sustainable and sustained if not.”

Maçães’ comments come as Portugal – one of the peripheral euro zone countries hardest hit by the region’s debt crisis – strives to prove it no longer needs international financial assistance.

via CNBC

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Alfonso Esparza

Alfonso Esparza

Senior Currency Analyst at Market Pulse
Alfonso Esparza specializes in macro forex strategies for North American and major currency pairs. Upon joining OANDA in 2007, Alfonso Esparza established the MarketPulseFX blog and he has since written extensively about central banks and global economic and political trends. Alfonso has also worked as a professional currency trader focused on North America and emerging markets. He has been published by The MarketWatch, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail, and he also appears regularly as a guest commentator on networks including Bloomberg and BNN. He holds a finance degree from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) and an MBA with a specialization on financial engineering and marketing from the University of Toronto.
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