Pedro Passos Coelho

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev will be on a two-day official visit to Portugal at the invitation of his Portuguese counterpart Anibal Cavaco Silva on Monday and Tuesday.

Main opposition New Democracy leader Vangelis Meimarakis opposed to the draft prepared on the refugee issue which criticizes Greece while attending the meeting of the European People’s Party group (EPP) which focus on migration and the formulation of a common asylum policy.

Mr. Meimarakis asked to remove the points where Greece is being criticized.

Portugal's ruling centre-right coalition won a general election Oct.4 seen as a referendum on its austerity policies, although it may not hold onto its absolute majority in parliament, near-complete results showed.

The ruling centre-right coalition, composed of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the People's Party (CDS-PP), won the general elections held in Portugal on Sunday.

With almost all votes counted, the centre-right coalition leads with 37 % of the votes, followed by the Socialists with 32 %.

The governments of Madrid and Lisbon have reacted against comments made by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras at the Greek Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) central committee meeting on Saturday. Tsipras had been critical of both those country's standards during Greece's tough negotiations at the Eurogroup.

By Joao Lima

Greece?s new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras won?t get much sympathy from Portugal for his debt-relief call.

By Axel Bugge & Sergio Goncalves

Portugal went through years of tough austerity which is now bearing fruit and Greece too must abide by its commitments to its single currency partners and creditors, Portugal's economy minister told the Reuters Euro Zone Summit.

After a flurry of meetings and telephone calls with European officials, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is set to meet with incoming European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at a European Union leaders' summit in Brussels on Saturday where he is expected to emphasize Greece’s progress in reforms ahead of next week's crucial negotiations with the troika in Paris.