LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's premier Pedro Passos Coelho has told his closest colleagues his government may fall if the country's constitutional court rejects some of his austerity measures, Publico newspaper said on Thursday.
Such a collapse, or a major failure in meeting budget targets, could derail Portugal's exit from its European Union bailout programme and add another layer to the euro zone crisis, currently focused on Cyprus.
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