A number of committees within the Constituent Assembly have finished drafting new articles, in particular the Freedoms and Rights Committee which has presented a new article regarding physically disabled citizens, according to Mohamed Salmawy, (...)
Political-driven calls to citizens to withdraw their deposits from Egyptian banks have yet to have any effect, according to Gamal Abd Al-Nasser Aqabi, President of the Egyptian Bank Employees Union.
Business is proceeding as normal within banks, he (...)
The government has taken measures to help put an end to the country's spinning and weaving crisis, set to take effect in the coming months.
The Spinning and Weaving Workers Union, along with the Ministries of Investment and Manpower and Immigration, (...)
Kamal Abu Eita, Minister of Manpower and Emigration stated that basic services need to be provided in order to encourage economic growth and benefit the lower classes at a recent conference held for Egyptians living abroad, under the title of "Egypt (...)
The government is working to address problems faced in a number of idle and shut down factories, according to Kamal Abu Eita, Minister of Manpower and Immigration.
The government will address these problems in cooperation with factory owners, (...)
The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) did not operate independently or serve its primary function during the Mubarak years, says its current chairman, Husam Al-Gharyani. The remarks came during a recent meeting in the Shura Council, where (...)
A Shura Council committee has requested that additional funds be provided to the country's public health budget. The committee consists of members of the Shura Council's Financial and Economic Affairs Committee and the Health, Population and (...)
The Ministry of Information is set to apply new austerity measures in an attempt to decrease spending. According to Minister of Information Salah Abd Al-Maqsud, the ministry has already cut spending from EGP 270m to EGP 208m this year.
During a (...)
Egypt is facing the prospect of “continued increases in its budget deficit", former Prime Minister Ali Lotfy warned.
The statement came during a recent meeting of the Shura Council's Economic and Financial Affairs Committee, in which Lotfy said that (...)
Ahmed Fahmy, President of Egypt's Shura Council, stated that Egypt was keen on preserving its relationship with the United States, one built on respect, mutual interests, and a commitment to not intervene in the domestic affairs of other countries. (...)
Finance Minister Fayad Abdel Moneim said that the government would soon unveil a new plan to reform the country's petroleum sector, provide electricity subsidies and ensure the safe transport of natural gas to factories.
During a meeting held by the (...)
Egypt's Culture, Information and Tourism Committee recently witnessed a series of disagreements between MPs about the issue of Iranian tourism in Egypt, with altercations breaking out between Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and Al-Wasat MPs on one (...)
Mohamed Al-Khouli, member of the Shura Council's Economic Committee, demanded that those responsible for a recent accounting error made with regards to Egypt's public budget be held responsible. He stated in a recent press conference that a (...)
Ahmed Fahmi, President of the Shura Council, stated that the civil society law under discussion will not threaten organisations in Egypt and that foreign fears regarding the law are unfounded.
He added that the new law would be balanced and provide (...)
A joint council, made up of the Shura Council's Financial and Public Administration Committees, released a statement demanding that steps be taken to help develop Egypt's textiles sector, in addition to working to increase funding for small, micro (...)
Sayed Aref, a member of the Salafi Al-Nour Party, recently announced that the party would be boycotting recent amendments being made to the country's tax law, in opposition to what he referred to as “the government withholding details regarding the (...)
Egypt's Shura Council recently agreed to amend clauses to Egypt's stamp tax Law 104 passed in 2012, a rewritten version of the country's Law 111 passed in 1980.
Tariq Sahari, the Shura Council member representing the Al-Nour party, publically (...)