Egypt's House of Representatives – the lower house of parliament – gave preliminary approval Sunday to two bills on money laundering and pilgrimage visas, with final approval postponed to an upcoming session.
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Egypt's House of Representatives – the lower house of parliament – will reconvene this week to hold plenary sessions on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
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The Mubarak family reserves their legal rights against any future "defamatory reporting," son of the late former President Hosni Mubarak, Gamal, said in a video statement broadcast on Tuesday.
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Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has called for a collective effort to maximise productivity in the agricultural sector and enhance food security when it comes to strategic crops.
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Member of Parliament (MP) Mostafa Salem — deputy chairperson of the Egyptian Parliament’s Budget Committee — revealed on Monday that the committee will be mobilised this week to discuss and review the new FY2022/23 budget and development plan with members of the Cabinet.
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The House of Representatives' Legislative and Constitutional Affairs Committee approved in a meeting on Sunday evening a set of government-drafted amendments to the Anti-Money Laundering Law 80/2002.
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Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said Egypt is working on a five-pillar plan to cope with the current global economic crisis resulting from the coronavirus pandemic and Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
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President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi directed on Sunday that companies be allowed to establish themselves digitally without being obliged to have a physical headquarters in order to remove all obstacles against entrepreneurs and start-ups in Egypt.
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Egypt’s Wafd Party chairman Abdel-Sanad Yamama has issued a decree appointing veteran politician Mona Makram Ebeid as assistant for international affairs to the party chairman of the liberal party.
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The Senate – Egypt's consultative upper house – will reconvene on Sunday to discuss a legislative amendment to the law regulating the fund for supporting disabled citizens (Law 200/2020) drafted and submitted by the parliamentary majority party of Mostaqbal Watan (The Nation's Future).
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Egypt's National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) said in a statement that it has received a petition signed by 500 Egyptian women urging the admission of jailed "prisoner of consience" and hunger-striker Alaa Abdel-Fattah to the prison's hospital in order to be placed under medical observation.
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Egypt’s National Youth Conference (NYC), which is in charge of organising a national dialogue on the country’s political and economic priorities in the coming stage, announced in a statement on Friday that the door for registration in the proposed political dialogue is now open.
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Egypt is going to hold an international press conference early next week to explain the state's vision on handling the current international economic crisis, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly announced on Wednesday.
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Egypt's Journalists Syndicate and several political parties and movements welcomed the National Training Academy's (NTA) invitation to participate in the national political dialogue President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi called for last month.
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President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said on Tuesday that there was an urgent need for a new balanced personal status law in Egypt to solve family issues honestly and impartially.
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The Presidential Pardon Committee announced in a statement on Tuesday that it will issue a list of tens of prisoners for presidential pardons soon.
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The National Training Academy (NTA) said on Tuesday that the National Dialogue between the government and political and youth currents would be be run in a neutral and impartial way among all segments of society that will be invited to participate.
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President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi directed on Tuesday the government to form a working group to regularly assess the import system and follow up on measures taken to meet the needs of the production sector, Presidential Spokesman Bassam Rady said.
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The draft budget of 2022/23 needs further review and amendments, declared members of the parliamentary Economic Affairs Committee on Monday after concluding the initial reading.
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Egypt’s parliament – the House of Representatives – gave final approval on Monday to a legislative amendment allocating an additional EGP 6 billion to the FY 2021/22 budget.
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