LISBON,
Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Portugal is not in need of any additional financial
assistance, Eurogroup President Jean-Claude Juncker said here on Wednesday.
"I
don't believe that Portugal will need higher amounts (of capital),"
Juncker told a press conference after a meeting with Portuguese Prime Minister
Pedro Passos Coelho.
According
to Juncker, the international bailout program designed for the Portuguese
economy "might need some technical adjustments," but not a complete
change.
The
Eurogroup chief said he believed Portugal was doing everything so that the
goals of the bailout program could be achieved.
In a
conference on economic governance in the EU later on Wednesday, Juncker said he
did not believe the current escalating eurozone debt crisis was a crisis of the
euro currency.
"The
truth is that, against the general conception that is established throughout
Europe, the euro currency is not in crisis. I get furious when I hear someone
saying the the euro is in a crisis. We are facing a debt crisis in some
countries," he said.
Editor: Mu Xuequan
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