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LISBON Jahleel Addae Womens Jersey , Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho said he will not raise taxes this year and remains confident that the country will reach its growth goal, local media reported Monday.


"There won't be a tax rise," Passos Coelho told journalists in Valpacos City, some 450 km northeast of Lisbon.


On Saturday, commentator and former PSD party leader Marques Mendes said on national television that the government was getting ready to raise value-added tax (VAT) from 23 percent to 24 percent.


Passos Coelho said measures of a "fiscal nature" were "not on the table," claiming an alternative to the recent cuts -- ruled out by the country's Constitutional Court -- had not yet been determined.


These would be discussed in next week's extraordinary reunion with ministers of state, he added.


On Aug. 14 Keenan Allen Womens Jersey , Portugal's Constitutional Court rejected a government proposal to cut salary for public sector employees between 2016 and 2018 and to impose a tax on public sector pensions. However, it approved public-sector salary cuts for 2014 and 2015.


Days after the court's ruling, the country announced that public debt had risen to 134 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of June, the highest rate in Europe. This sparked outrage among the country's main opposition Socialist Party, who accused the government of "fiscal suffocation."


The government had predicted public debt would peak at 130.2 percent of GDP this year.


However, on Sunday, Passos Coelho insisted that the country's target to cut the budget deficit to 4 percent of GDP for this year was reachable.


The country still has to cut its budget deficit to 2.5 percent in 2015. Passos Coelho pointed out that the court's decision now meant that the government would have to make some readjustments in the state budget Melvin Ingram Womens Jersey , and didn't exclude the possibility of raising tax in the future.


Portugal signed a 78-billion-euros (103 billion U.S. dollars) bailout with the troika of its international lenders -- the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund -- in 2011. Since then, it has had to raise taxes and cut spending to meet the targets set by troika.


The country officially ended that program in May this year, but the country only emerged from its deepening recession in the second half of last year.


Though the unemployment rate has dropped from 15.1 percent in the first quarter to 13.9 percent in the second quarter, it still remains among the highest in Europe.


The Portuguese center-right government is planning to approve the debt-laden country's amended budget on Tuesday.


by Marian Draganov, Chen Hang


MOMCHILOVTSI, Bulgaria Joey Bosa Womens Jersey , Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- The 51 members of the team who filmed the first Chinese reality show "Survivor" in Bulgaria, experienced the charm of the Balkan country, and contributed to the revitalization of the local economy, locals said.


The two-week reality show kicked off on Aug. 29 at the village of Momchilovtsi, located in a valley in the Central Rhodope Mountains 1,200 meters above sea level, some 240 km southeast of the Bulgarian capital Sofia.


Maria Nikova Melvin Gordon Womens Jersey , mayor of Momchilovtsi, told Xinhua that the show, which will be broadcast in China in late September, was a part of a project for the promotion of yogurt, implemented by the village and a Chinese dairy producer based in Shanghai.


Hu Jian, senior manager of the Chinese dairy company said that the reason for choosing the village as the spot for the show was that there is a unique dish in the Rhodope village -- yogurt.


Yogurt is an indispensable part of the life of the local people. "You can see yogurt everywhere -- yogurt soup, yogurt dessert Philip Rivers Womens Jersey , even the sauce for the barbecue," said Hu.


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The main purpose of the reality show according to Hu is to introduce the healthy lifestyle of the Bulgarian village to the Chinese audience through the experience of seven Chinese survivors.


Nikova said that during the first week, seven Chinese stars had to survive in the home of a local family without an interpreter and with only a Chinese-Bulgarian dictionary, while in the second week all Chinese people were gathered together in a single house.


The seven Chinese experienced their first test before entering the houses of their hosts because they had to identify the right people when they were greeted at dusk at the crowded square of the village, Nikova said.


As early as next day, Nikova involved her Chinese guest, the 22-year-old Monica from Shanghai Justin Jones Womens Jersey , in all household activities such as feeding the hens and the calf, and picking vegetables from the small garden in the small yard.


Nikova said that the Chinese were impressed by a tomato that weighed 1.1 kg.


"I did not know how they communicated with each other, but at one moment over 20 people came in our garden in our yard, to film carrots, tomatoes, the calf and the hens," Nikova said.


Monica had to harvest hay from the meadows near the village Uchenna Nwosu Womens Jersey , Nikova said. But to be able to feel how the local people gathered hay in the heat years ago, the participant in the Chinese reality show was dressed in traditional Rhodope costume.


Monica also learned to cook traditional local dishes like patatnik, banitsa and stuffed peppers. In her last evening at the house, she cooked delicious Chinese food, Nikova said.


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"Indeed, when you look at the sunset or sunrise even for a few minutes, you relax from all of life's tensions," Nikova said.


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