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Secretarul General al OCDE, Mathias Cormann, vine luni la București. La ora 9.00 el va fi primit, la Palatul Cotroceni, de președintele Nicușor Dan. Începând cu ora 10.00 Corman ajunge la Palatul Victoria, unde are programată o întrevedere bilaterală cu Ilie Bolojan. La 10.30, cei doi vor participa la reuniunea Comitetului național pentru aderarea României la OCDE, iar la ora 11.15 sunt…

Mathias Cormann: The ex-Belgian running Australia this week

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Image caption Mathias Cormann will be Australia’s acting prime minister for four days

Australian Senator Mathias Cormann spoke little English until 1993 – a year before his first visit to the nation.

Now the Belgium-raised politician will become Australia’s acting prime minister this week, stepping in…

Joyce will agree with leave subsequent week, Cormann to be performing PM as a replacement

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Photo: Barnaby Joyce may perchance perchance now not be Malcolm Turnbull’s assist-up subsequent week. (ABC Recordsdata: Jed Cooper)

Linked Fable: Joyce fends off questions on rent-free home as Labor requires his head

Linked Fable: Barnaby Joyce hangs on to his job for but another day

Prime…

Finance industry standards report a new headache for Mathias Cormann

After losing the battle to windback financial advice laws, Senator Mathias Cormann will need to carefully consider how he reacts to a report from an industry working group into the professional, ethical and educational standards of financial planners.

ABC, climate change: the Coalition is drowning us in nonsense

This morning, on the wireless, I heard the finance minister, Mathias Cormann, say the government wasn’t making cuts to the ABC. The day before, I heard the communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull, say Tony Abbott hadn’t actually promised before last September’s election not to cut the budgets of the ABC and SBS. If Abbott had said something like that, then he didn’t mean it; and more likely,…

Government keeps election promise of no new taxes by introducing a Tariff

The Abbott Government today has announced an increase to fuel excise, raising concern by members of the opposition that the Government has broken its election promise on no new taxes or tax increases. Finance Minister and Western Australian Senator, Mathias Cormann, has emphasised that the increase in fuel excise is a tariff.

Government gets round Senate on fuel

Motorists will pay more for petrol from November despite the Senate numbers not being there to pass the budget’s fuel tax hike.