2011年4月9日星期六

Portugal is pressed to sustainable cuts at the end Euro crisis

April 09, 2011, 10: 40 am EDT by James g. Neuger and Mark Deen

(Adds comments from Cavaco Silva at paragraph 11).

April 9 (Bloomberg) - rich countries of Europe looked to the Portugal to resolve the debt crisis of the years euro come with deficit "sustainable" cuts to pave the way for a 80 billion rescue plan euro ($116 billion).Confident that Portugal will be the last seeker aid, Finance Minister German Wolfgang Sch?uble pushed the enemy political parties in Lisbon to unite behind an austerity package in the thickness of an election campaign. "It is the Portugal to decide, is said to reporters today at a meeting of European finance officials at Godollo in Hungary. Portugal "has to offer sustainable measures to reduce the deficit."Bond markets reflect optimism that Spain will escape the turmoil, while speculation mounted that the Greece may need to deal with debt help floating that triggered the crisis last year.The Finance Ministers agreed yesterday to send representatives, European Commission, European Central Bank and Monetary Fund International in Lisbon next week to start negotiations on the package, to recap on 16 may, three weeks before the June 5 elections to the Portugal.Rendement of the obligations of Portugal sweeping reached euro-ère heights after that the opposition party coldly March 23 to program additional savings of 4.5 per cent of the gross domestic product in three years, leading Prime Minister Jose Socrates to resign and prompting downgrades rating credit of the country.YieldYesterday extra European commitment is not the Portuguese market of the buoy. Ten years pink yields 5 basis points to 8.66%, leaving the additional performance on German bonds 518 basis points.Europe to return to financial health effort is also overwhelmed by the threat of higher after borrowing costs that the ECB this week lifted its main interest rate for the first time in nearly three years.A sign of how Portugal has surrendered control of its destiny, the European Union will impinge on the political campaign trying to negotiate an agreement for budget cuts of cross-party between Socrates and the opposition party headed by Pedro Coelho.Anibal Cavaco Silva Passos, Portuguese President largely ceremonial, said he will play a role in the establishment of an initial agreement on economic reform, which is followed by the future Government.Interim of the programme "we now need is a provisional program for the next Government can participate in the final negotiation because it is the next Government that will implement the program", Cavaco Silva told journalists at a separate event in Budapest today.The two parties "are paste general budgetary targets" shaving the deficit of 4.6% of GDP this year, 3% in 2012 and 2 per cent in 2013, said Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker. "" Discussing the deeply unpopular measures before the election of will be easy ", Gilles Moec, an economist based in London, Deutsche Bank AG, said in a research note. "Some volatile newsflow is likely to emerge in the coming days in Lisbon.Budget cuts and the sale of State property, Portugal will be pressed to reduce regulations which have helped to keep its annual economic growth rate less than 1% for the last decade, one of the worst years of Europe.The estimate of aid of EUR 80 billion is "very, very preliminary", the economic and Monetary Union Commissioner Olli Rehn said in Godollo. He said loans of Portugal would "probably" for three years, shorter than the maturities of 7 1/2 years on the EU and the IMF packages joint 110 billion euros for the Greece and 67.5 billion euros for the Ireland. "Move to Expeditiously'As with the two first rescue plans, two-thirds of the loans would come from the EU and a third of the IMF. The Washington-based global lender is "ready to act swiftly" ", Director General Dominique Strauss-Kahn said yesterday." ""I never write that check before I see the Bill," said French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde. "Work must be done quickly."Policy in the country to pay the Bill will be also play a role, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel popularity suffering and polls showing a wave of support for a party Eurosceptic elections April 17 of Finlande.Le Minister of Finnish finance Jyrki Katainen, a candidate for Prime Minister, said that Portugal must adopt deficit reductions that go beyond the measures rejected the month last to Parliament. "The package must be really strict because otherwise there is no sense,"said yesterday Katainen. "Packet needs to be more difficult and more complete than the Parliament voted against."Ministers of debt CrisisFinance has also taken steps to loosen the economic noose around the Greece, the country that triggered the debt crisis, when he turned to default a year ago.Plans to extend the deadlines of the Greece to 7 1/2 years 3 years have been confirmed at the meeting, with a reduction in the rate of average loan by 1 percent to around 3.5%.Ireland has less progressed to win a cup with pressures of the Germany and the France to first lift the rate of 5.8% help its 12.5% business tax rates, about half of the average European.Investors are pricing Greece 938 basis points more Germany to borrow for 10 years and in Ireland, 577 basis points. Spread of the Spain been compressed basis by 283 basis points 178 points on 30 November, a sign of growing confidence in the financial management of the Spain. "" I have not any risk of contagion - we are completely, the Minister of finance Spanish Elena Salgado said. "

-With the help of Edith Balazs, Rainer Buergin, Zoltan Simon, Anabela Reis, Jonathan Stearns, Joe Brennan, Jeffrey Donovan, Jim Brunsden, Jeff Black, Nicole Itano and Marie Keyworth in Godollo and Sandrine Rastello and Rebecca Christie in Washington. Editors: Jones Hayden, Simone Meier

To contact the reporters on this story: James g. Neuger of Godollo, in Hungary, jneuger@bloomberg.net; Mark Deen in Godollo, Hungary, markdeen@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: James Hertling at jhertling@bloomberg.net


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