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Argentina Lower House Approves Bill Curbing Presidential Decrees
FinanceUK Treasury Bars Ministers From Using Emergency Reserve to Fund Public-Sector Pay Rises
Austria Saves 310 Million Euros by Renegotiating Civil Servants' Pay Rise
HeadlinesHalf of Italy's EU post-COVID Funds yet to Be Spent, Watchdogs Say
French Socialist Party: No Guarantee Pension Reform Will Be Suspended
Date: October 8, 2025
PARIS (Reuters) -No guarantee has been made, following talks with caretaker Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, that the suspension to France's pension reform will go ahead, said Socialist Party leader...
Romania's Top Court Delays Ruling on Two Fiscal Measures
Date: October 8, 2025
BUCHAREST (Reuters) -Romania's top court on Wednesday rejected two challenges brought against measures to lower the budget deficit but said it would postpone a decision on two others, prolonging...
Germany Restricts Online Cannabis Sales Amid Import Boom
Date: October 8, 2025
BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany's cabinet passed plans on Wednesday to restrict the online sale of cannabis to tackle a surge in imports of the drug since the legalisation of its recreational use last year,...
French PM Scraps Ministers' Severance Payouts in Belt-Tightening Move
Date: October 8, 2025
PARIS (Reuters) -Caretaker French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Wednesday that ministers in his short-lived government would not receive severance pay, aiming to set an example of the...
Two Years After She Was Pictured in Grief, Gaza Woman Faces More Misery
Date: October 7, 2025
GAZA, October 7 (Reuters) -Two years of Israeli bombardment of Gaza has piled grief upon grief for displaced Palestinian Inas Abu Maamar. In the first days of the war, a Reuters photograph showed Abu...
New Zealand Foreign Minister's Home Attacked by Protester
Date: October 6, 2025
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) -A man has been charged after a window of the New Zealand Foreign Minister’s home was smashed with a crowbar Monday and a note pinned to his front door that said "...