Government Finances

LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's opposition Social Democrats narrowed the gap behind Prime Minister Antonio Costa's Socialist Party in an opinion...

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday signed a 5.024 trillion pesos ($98.45 billion) budget for next year,...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - The new Czech centre-right government will freeze the pay of state workers and reduce previously announced pay...

By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian tax officials have seized more than $30 million in cash and gold...

By Ricardo Brito and Gram Slattery BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The Brazilian government has allocated 200 million reais ($35.5...

By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's cabinet approved on Friday an annual budget of $940 billion that is a record...

By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government on Friday approved record defence spending, with a...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday he did not expect energy problems next year...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will earmark a record annual military outlay of 5.37 trillion yen ($47.05 billion) in the new...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Over 300 Brazilian senior officials have resigned from their posts over budget cuts to the country's...

By Giselda Vagnoni and Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi signalled on Wednesday he would be...

ACCRA (Reuters) -A brawl broke out on the floor of Ghana's parliament late on Monday as lawmakers debated a proposed...

By Julie Gordon OTTAWA (Reuters) - Municipalities should rezone broadly to allow more density and Canada should temporarily ban foreign...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland believes talks between Britain and the European Union are on track for progress and David Frost's...

By Lisandra Paraguassu and Stephen Eisenhammer SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is...

By Conor Humphries DUBLIN (Reuters) - A European Commissioner said on Sunday that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's refusal to...

PARIS (Reuters) - In the French ski resort of Val d'Isere, staff had been hired, shelves fully stocked and everyone...

By Robert Muller and Jason Hovet PRAGUE (Reuters) -Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala's new centre-right government took office on Friday...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's finance minister said on Friday the government will prepare a new 4.3 trillion won ($3.6...

By Bart H. Meijer AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch government-in-waiting is promising a break with recent history with its aim...