Portugal's Finance Ministry Blocks an ECO Journalist From an Off-the-Record Briefing After the Paper Scooped Its Treasury-Certificates Launch
After ECO published details of the government's new Certificados do Tesouro a day before an embargoed release, a GNR officer turned its reporter away from an off-the-record Finance Ministry briefing he had been invited to. ECO's director calls it a punishment and says the paper will boycott such mee