All posts tagged "Treasury"

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  Greek MPs Back Eurozone Deal Laws Amidst Protests

  Greek MPs have approved tough economic measures required to enable an €86bn Eurozone bailout deal to go ahead. The legislation includes the abolition of the VAT discount of 30% for Greek islands,

  • Posted July 16, 2015
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  Greek Civil Servants Stage 24-hour Strike Over Austerity Plan

  Public sector workers in Greece are today staging a 24-hour walk-out in protest against new austerity measures agreed by Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras. After a weekend of often-acrimonious negotiations,

  • Posted July 15, 2015
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  Guðmundur Árnason, permanent secretary, Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, Iceland: Exclusive Interview

  Iceland has recently announced a concrete plan to lift its capital controls. Guðmundur Árnason, the permanent secretary of its finance ministry, explains why it took almost seven years to come

  • Posted July 10, 2015
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  Global Government Finance Summit Report 2015

  The Global Government Finance Summit brings together permanent secretary-level public officials from government treasury and finance ministries around the world to share governments’ domestic financial and regulatory challenges and appropriate

  • Posted July 6, 2015
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  UK Treasury: Future governments must run budget surplus

  The UK wants to pass a law forcing future governments to maintain a budget surplus as long as the economy is in “normal times”. Currently, the government is committed to

  • Posted June 10, 2015
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  Gabriel Makhlouf, Treasury, New Zealand: Exclusive Interview

  Head of the New Zealand Treasury Gabriel Makhlouf, worked as a senior civil servant in the UK for 15 years before moving to the South Pacific country. He tells Global

  • Posted May 31, 2015
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  Britain at risk to miss Nato defence target, MoD official says

  Britain could miss a crucial Nato target for defence spending, as the UK Treasury is seeking to cut the budgets of most government departments this year by an extra 5%,

  • Posted May 29, 2015
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  Vicky Robertson appointed new environmental chief in New Zealand

  Former New Zealand hockey player Vicky Robertson will be the new secretary for the environment and chief executive of the Ministry for the Environment (MfE), it has been announced today.

  • Posted April 14, 2015
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  Think tank has cross-party backing but some of its ideas are ‘incompatible with the law’

  Radical proposals to reshape the British civil service have been deemed unlawful by the independent body overseeing civil service appointments. New think tank GovernUp, which launched a set of wide-ranging

  • Posted March 18, 2015
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