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The European Commission is expected on Wednesday to increase the pressure on several countries, particularly France, to speed up structural reforms seen as the only reliable way to boost growth and job creation.

• 28 мая 2013, 11:31

Kazakhstan Senate has approved the draft law amending the pension system in the first reading.

• 16 мая 2013, 19:31

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's tough exterior cracked Wednesday as she choked back tears while introducing a bill into parliament on disability reforms.

• 15 мая 2013, 18:39

Senator Svetlana Dzhalmagambetova suggests to return the draft pension law for rework.

• 15 мая 2013, 13:37

The delay may be caused by “the negative reaction of Kazakhstan women” who disagree with the government’s legislative initiative.

• 13 мая 2013, 17:48

A US political battle raged Monday over the cost of Senate-proposed immigration reform, with a conservative think-tank warning the plan to legalize 11 million undocumented workers would soar to $6.3 trillion.

• 07 мая 2013, 17:14

The British government minister pushing through strongly criticised reforms of the welfare state urged rich pensioners on Sunday to give back any handouts they don't need.

• 29 апреля 2013, 17:38

Spain's government, seeking to cut its deficit amidst a double-dip recession, is to unveil new measures Friday aimed at reviving the economy, a day after registering record unemployment.

• 26 апреля 2013, 16:34

Kazakhstan Minister of Labor and Social Protection Serik Abdenov was attacked with eggs in front of 50 journalists and photographers during a briefing in Almaty.

• 26 апреля 2013, 16:16

57-y.o. woman went skydiving in Pavlodar to support the retirement reform in Kazakhstan.

• 25 апреля 2013, 15:40

Bristling with anger, President Barack Obama branded Wednesday's defeat of his gun reform drive in the US Senate as "shameful," and accused lawmakers of caving in to the powerful firearms lobby.

• 18 апреля 2013, 18:27

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers was set to unveil this week a major immigration reform proposal that could, if passed, provide a path to citizenship for millions of people in the country illigally.

• 17 апреля 2013, 11:03

Raising the retirement age for women will cause a dramatic jobs deficit and unemployment in Kazakhstan: experts.

• 16 апреля 2013, 19:00

Cherry blossoms aren't the only things in bloom in the US capital these days. Progress and bipartisanship are, if not in full flower, at least pushing through cracks in longstanding political gridlock.

• 12 апреля 2013, 18:30

A few places in China give parents a rare right to have two offspring rather than one, but many stop at a single child anyway -- fuelling demands to end what critics call an unnecessary, harmful rule.

• 01 апреля 2013, 13:45

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg is helping form a group to lobby for US political reform in areas such as education and immigration policy.

• 27 марта 2013, 12:00

There are people lobbying for Kazakhstan universities among deputies and government members: Kazakhstan Minister.

• 26 марта 2013, 16:12

Australia defended proposed media reforms arising from Britain's phone-hacking scandal Wednesday after a heated backlash from Rupert Murdoch's local operations, which labelled them dictatorial.

• 13 марта 2013, 14:28

The number of private universities will be slashed in Kazakhstan by 2015.

• 12 марта 2013, 18:58

Mexico's government introduced a draft constitutional reform Monday to end monopolies in telecoms industries that have built some of the country's biggest fortunes.

• 12 марта 2013, 16:49