Car traders and other professional dealers will no longer be able to accept cash payments of more than €3,000 from 2026, if finance minister Steven van Weyenberg and justice minister Dilan Yesilgöz have their way. The ministers plan to press ahead with legislation to outlaw large cash payments even though parliament declared the issue to be “controversial” and so out of bounds to the caretaker cabinet. However, if the measure, designed to cut down on money laundering, is not implemented
Scotland's sports minister has said she is "like an excited puppy" at the
(The Center Square) – The University of Missouri announced a $250 million expansion and renovation to its football stadium, but officials don’t know how it will be financed. “We are currently working on the financing plan,” Marcy Girton, interim athletic director at the Columbia campus, said during a livestream announcement from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, site of the Board of Curators meeting. “We engage some outside counsel on that or some outside vendor...
MPs have voted in favour of a motion that could lead to an end to foreign adoptions by Dutch families. A majority of MPs voted in favour of a Socialist party motion calling on the cabinet to come up with a plan to “carefully wind down” foreign adoptions, ignoring calls by legal protection minister Franc Weerwind to vote against it. The motion was backed by the far-right PVV and other right-wing parties as well as ChristenUnie and the pro-animal PvdD.
A social media ban for under-16s is among a raft of proposals set to be unveiled by the Government within weeks, it has been reported. (Stock Image)
OTTAWA - Canada's dental associations, which say some of their members are reluctant to participate in the national dental care plan, are in fact just negotiating with Ottawa over the program, says federal Health Minister Mark Holland. “They're doing their job. They are negotiating,” Holland told reporters on Monday. “They want to get the best deal for their members; I want to get the best deal for taxpayers.” However, he said, the federal government can't accept the demand by “a lot” of...
Shafaq News/ US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his Israeli counterpart Yoav Galant engaged in discussions regarding the Israeli army's planned withdrawal from parts of the Gaza Strip and ongoing i
Yuval RosenbergApril 16, 2024House Speaker Mike Johnson insisted Tuesday that he will not give up his gavel after a second member of his
German Finance Minister Christian Lindner rejected on Thursday Brazil's proposal to tax the super-rich, indicating a challenging path for it to gain widespread G20 support. "We do not think it is suitable," he said at a press conference alongside Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel in Washington. Brazil, heading the presidency of the Group of Twenty (G20), is aiming to build international consensus on the taxation of wealth this year, and is pushing for a joint declaration at a meeting of G20...
Azerbaijan was represented at the 11th Ministerial Meeting of the Coalition
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s prime minister and senior presidential officials offered to resign en masse on Thursday, after their conservative ruling party suffered a crushing defeat in parliamentary elections. The results of Wednesday’s elections were a huge political blow to President Yoon Suk Yeol, likely setting back
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean media report that the prime minster and top presidential advisers have offered to resign in the wake of the parliamentary election defeat. South Korean media outlets including Yonhap news agency submitted their resignations on Thursday. South Korea’s liberal opposition parties appeared set to