Portugal has to show it is on right path

MADRID: Portugal has to prove to its creditors that it is taking the measures necessary to get its economy into shape, International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss Kahn said on Wednesday.

"The situation is in the hands of the Portuguese government, it has to prove to its creditors that it is taking the right steps," the IMF's Managing Director told newspaper El Pais in a joint interview with the Washington Post and La Repubblica.