Portugal targets first budget surplus in decades, solid growth
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LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's government unveiled its draft 2020 budget on Tuesday, projecting the country's first fiscal surplus in 45 years of democracy on solid growth and promising a gentle tax reduction for small firms and more taxes on bullfighting events."It is the first budget delivered with a surplus," Portugal's finance minister Mario Centeno told reporters. "Growing, consolidating public accounts and reducing debt is very rare worldwide."The envisaged surplus of 0.2% of gross..