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Plotting the course
Brussels :: Belgium | 2 days ago
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Work in that sense would have to be done on several fronts, but the immediate priority was to adopt a balanced Budget for 2010 and balancing the books on this year’s Budget. Increased revenue and spending cuts generated a Budget surplus in October, which...
Tags: government, Parliament
Vice President Inaugurates Workshop on “Parliament & Media”
The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari inaugurated a Workshop on “Parliament and Media” here today. Delivering inaugural address, he said that today, the demands of professional journalists are carefully balanced with the interests...
Tags: Media, Parliament
MPs await expenses reform plans
London :: United Kingdom | 5 days ago
Credibility Sir Christopher Kelly is believed to want to end claims for mortgage payments, employing relatives and "golden goodbyes" for retiring MPs. His findings, to be announced at 1000 GMT, follow a tumultuous year in which expenses have been heavily criticised.
Tags: Sir Christopher Kelly, capital gain, Britain, kelly report, Parliament, family members, lawmakers face, expenses claims
MPs 'facing major expenses cuts'
London :: United Kingdom | 12 days ago
Credibility The BBC has learned it will propose an end to mortgage claims, MPs employing relatives and so-called "golden goodbyes" to retiring MPs. First class travel and London travel costs would be reduced and a £25-a-day "subsistence" allowance would end. Sir...
Tags: Sir Christopher Kelly, family members, Parliament, London, employ relatives, mp face, mortgage claims, face ban, Westminster
Berri adjourns session to elect Parliament committees
Beirut :: Lebanon | 12 days ago
Credibility Speaker Nabih Berri adjourned to November 5 a legislative session to elect Parliament’s committees on Tuesday. Berri postponed the session after the required quorum was not reached...Only four lawmakers from the parliamentary majority made it to Parliament,...
Tags: Robert Ghanem, parliamentary commissions, Nabih Berri, Parliament, mp robert, commissions elections, ghanem told, Voice of Lebanon radio, cabinet formation
FS medical school may close
Bloemfontein :: South Africa | 18 days ago
Credibility The University of the Free State's medical school is in danger of being closed down, its acting head told Parliament on Wednesday. "There is a real issue of whether the school of medicine should be closed down in the Free State," Andries Stulting told...
Tags: Parliament, public hospitals
More help for domestic violence victims
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 18 days ago
Credibility Justice Minister Simon Power said the five-day period will be crucial if the protection order is issued over a long weekend or in other situations where access to the courts is limited. The new law allows for the removal of women and children from violent...
Tags: justice minister, domestic violence, simon powers, minister simon, Simon Power, convicted offenders, Parliament, powers says, protection orders
Cameron could introduce all-women shortlists
London :: United Kingdom | 19 days ago
Credibility Cameron to reverse opposition to all-women shortlists Tory victory at next election threatens to see number of female MPs plateau David Cameron gives evidence to the Speaker's conference in Westminster today. Photograph: PA David Cameron is to reverse...
Tags: David Cameron, women shortlist, Mr Cameron, Parliament, women candidates
Speaker announces two new secretaries of treasury
Beirut :: Lebanon | 19 days ago
Credibility Lawmakers elected on Tuesday Parliament’s two secretaries of treasury as Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri postponed the elections of parliamentary commissions until next Tuesday to allow the necessary time to reach a consensus between political parties. Berri...
Tags: bloc mp, Parliament, Nabih Berri
'Cruising' banned in boy-racer legislation
Auckland :: New Zealand | 19 days ago
Credibility The Government has allowed the banning of cars "cruising" down certain streets and driving while affected by a prescription sleeping pill as a raft of its hardline measures start becoming law. The anti-boy-racer legislation passed last night was the first...
Tags: boy racer, Parliament, driving legislation, illegal street
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