"Whenever the prime minister says anything, we should ask ourselves: is what he is saying really true. Well it seems, it wasn’t", António Costa said.~


The Socialist leader was speaking at a debate on the meeting of generations, but was asked many questions about the current shape of the country and about Greece.


The Greek question was raised after a member of the audience quoted declarations from the Italian finance minister, Pier Carlo Padoan, and reproduced in the Portuguese paper Jornal de Negócios, saying that only Italy, France and Cyprus helped get a compromise with Greece at the euro summit on Sunday.


At the end of the summit Passos Coelho said that Portugal has contributed towards the solution that was approved by Greece.


"One of the reasons I always thought it incredibly imprudent the way the government was handling the Greek question was because the moment Greece leaves the European Union, or at least the euro zone, we have done away with the fundamental idea of any monetary union: they are irreversible and when we open the first precedent, we never k now what will come next", he said.