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AHN News Staff London, England, United Kingdom (AHN) – British Prime Minister David Cameron promised Monday a review of regulations and taxes to encourage Britons to set up new enterprises, rather than just looking for jobs. By setting up businesses, more jobs would be generated. Cameron made the pledge as Britain observes Global Entrepreneurship Week [...]

Linda Young – AHN News Writer Madrid, Spain (AHN) – Spain’s weak economic recovery stalled in the third quarter, according to data from Spain’s National Statistics Institute. Preliminary figures for the gross domestic product (GDP) from July to September shows it unchanged from Q2. In addition, GDP for the year was only up 0.2 percent [...]

The Media Line Staff Tel Aviv, Israel (TML) – Isaac Herzog, who has declared his bid for leadership of Israel’s Labor Party, said the current political constellation had created a “golden opportunity” for reaching an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement but that Labor won’t remain in the government for long if the government doesn’t act. Speaking before [...]

AHN News Staff London, England, United Kingdom (AHN) – While the British coalition government raised the retirement age in last week’s spending review, ministers say they are also planning to increase the state pension to $210 (140 pounds) a week. The current pension is a maximum of $146.48 (97.65 pounds) for singles and $234.23 (156.15 [...]

AHN News Staff London, England, United Kingdom (AHN) – British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg questioned on Thursday an analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies that concluded the $121.5 billion (81 billion pounds) in budget cuts made by the coalition government would hit the poor the hardest. The cuts were announced Wednesday by Chancellor [...]

AHN News Staff London, England, United Kingdom (AHN) – The bank tax imposed Thursday by the British coalition government will be just 0.04 percent, which is lower than expectations. Because the levy on bank balance sheets would raise just about $3.75 billion (2.5 billion pounds), the government has been accused of going soft on banks. [...]

AHN News Staff London, England, United Kingdom (AHN) – Employees in Britain’s public sector should brace for the worst as a document unwittingly exposed by Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander on Tuesday projected the loss of 500,000 jobs by 2014. The confidential briefing papers, publicly revealed when Alexander was photographed while reading the [...]

AHN News Staff Paris, France (AHN) – In a protest against recently approved pension reform plans, French unions on Tuesday came down to the streets to launch the latest round of strikes, threatening an open-end action against the government to force it to agree to their demands. This was the fourth biggest action against the [...]

AHN News Staff Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (AHN) – The federal government of Canada and the Public Service Alliance of Canada have entered into a tentative agreement that would cover about 95,000 public employees. Treasury Board President Stockwell Day announced the deal Monday with Canada’s largest federal union. The pact provides for a 5.3 percent salary [...]

AHN News Staff Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (AHN) – The federal government of Canada will announce on Thursday that it will lift the freeze on Employment Insurance premiums. The freeze was part of the economic stimulus package offered by Ottawa to battle the recession. The lifting of the freeze was originally scheduled Jan. 1, 2010, but [...]