Government Finances

By Carlos Vargas BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's Congress approved the 350.4 trillion peso ($93 billion) spending package proposed by the...

KUWAIT (Reuters) -Kuwait's ruling emir on Wednesday paved the way for an amnesty to pardon dissidents, which has been a...

By Alessandra Prentice LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - African countries want a new system to track funding from wealthy nations that are...

By Jan Strupczewski and Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS/LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) -Poland's prime minister came under repeated criticism during a tense debate in...

By Marcela Ayres BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government is considering combining pandemic relief payments and "Bolsa Familia" welfare programs into...

By Nia Williams CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Alberta held a referendum on Monday asking whether Canada should remove a commitment...

(This October 13 story has corrected to fix spelling of surname of Petar Atanasov, from Atansov, in paragraph 6) By...

By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is seeking to steal opposition thunder at this month's...

By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) - So often the source of rows between its members, the European Union starts reviewing...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech opposition parties seeking to form a new government will aim to rework the 2022 budget to...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is providing more than $20 million in additional humanitarian aid for nearly 700,000 asylum...

By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) - Olaf Scholz wants to wrap up the negotiations that should make him Germany's next...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Three German parties agreed a roadmap to form a new German government on Friday that included no...

By Zandi Shabalala (Reuters) - South Africa's economic woes are being compounded by the theft of massive amounts of copper...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will shuffle his cabinet on Oct. 25, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp said...

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's new centre-left government formally took over power on Thursday after winning elections last month, though the...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Slovak Finance Minister Igor Matovic said on Wednesday it was up to central bank Governor and European...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's budget deficit will be 2.3% of economic output next year, falling below the European Union's 3%...

DOHA (Reuters) - There is no clear path for unfreezing Afghan government funds, Qatar's foreign minister told a conference on...

By Terje Solsvik OSLO (Reuters) -Norway should sharply cut spending from its $1.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund in 2022 as...