Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Portugal will have a structural deficit of 2.6 percent of gross domestic product this year, Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar said.

The structural deficit adjustment has been “tremendous,” Gaspar said today at the London School of Economics.

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