Lisbon at odds with eurozone’s north

Article reports that Portugal’s government was at loggerheads in March 2011with other eurozone members that said that it had not done enough to get to grips with its public finances.

José Sócrates, Portugal’s Prime Minister, met Angela Merkel, German chancellor, in Berlin on the 2 March 2011 amid growing concern that Lisbon will have to seek an international bail-out.

PressEurop, 3.3.11: Iron chancellor will have her way http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/524641-iron-chancellor-will-have-her-way

ESO: Background information: ECB buys Portuguese debt as yields soar http://www.europeansources.info/record/ecb-buys-portuguese-debt-as-yields-soar/

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