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Portugal’s new govt sees EU aid as firing up economic growth

Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa, left, is applauded after delivering his speech closing the swearing in ceremony of the new center-left Socialist government at the Ajuda palace in Lisbon, Wednesday, March 30, 2022. The Socialists captured 120 seats in the 230-seat parliament in a landslide election win last January, opening a path for far-reaching reforms long postponed by political quarreling. (AP Photo/Armando Franca) Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, right, listens to the speech of Prime Minister Antonio Costa during the swearing in ceremony of the new center-left Socialist government at the Ajuda palace in Lisbon, Wednesday, March 30, 2022. The Socialists captured 120 seats in the 230-seat parliament in a landslide election win last January, opening a path for far-reaching reforms long postponed by political quarreling. (AP Photo/Armando Franca) Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa talks with Prime Minister Antonio Costa, right, at the end of the swearing in ceremony of the new center-left Socialist government at the Ajuda palace in Lisbon, Wednesday, March 30, 2022. The Socialists captured 120 seats in the 230-seat parliament in a landslide election win last January, opening a path for far-reaching reforms long postponed by political quarreling. (AP Photo/Armando Franca) Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa, at the lectern, delivers his speech during the swearing in ceremony of the new center-left Socialist government at the Ajuda palace in Lisbon, Wednesday, March 30, 2022. The Socialists captured 120 seats in the 230-seat parliament in a landslide election win last January, opening a path for far-reaching reforms long postponed by political quarreling. (AP Photo/Armando Franca) Guests queue to congratulate Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa,center, at the end of the swearing in ceremony of the new center-left Socialist government at the Ajuda palace in Lisbon, Wednesday, March 30, 2022. The Socialists captured 120 seats in the 230-seat parliament in a landslide election win last January, opening a path for far-reaching reforms long postponed by political quarreling. (AP Photo/Armando Franca) Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa is worn in during a ceremony inaugurating the new center-left Socialist government at the Ajuda palace in Lisbon, Wednesday, March 30, 2022. The Socialists captured 120 seats in the 230-seat parliament in a landslide election win last January, opening a path for far-reaching reforms long postponed by political quarreling. (AP Photo/Armando Franca) Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa delivers his speech during the swearing in ceremony of the new center-left Socialist government at the Ajuda palace in Lisbon, Wednesday, March 30, 2022. The Socialists captured 120 seats in the 230-seat parliament in a landslide election win last January, opening a path for far-reaching reforms long postponed by political quarreling. (AP Photo/Armando Franca) FILE - Portuguese Prime Minister and Socialist Party Secretary General Antonio Costa pauses during a speech in Lisbon, on Jan. 31, 2022. Members of Portugal’s center-left Socialist Party are set to be sworn into office Wednesday for the party's third straight term in government as the country prepares to start spending some 45 billion euros ($50 billion) in European Union aid to help fire up one of the bloc’s weakest economies. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)