Governatives

USA Presidential: Clinton and Trump, different transparency in tax matters

The race for the White House is also a challenge shots of declarations (of income). While Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill said they had earned $ 10.6 million in 2015 and have paid taxes of 3.6 million, the Republican rival Donald Trump refuses to disclose its data. That means their effective tax rate — a measure of their income tax burden — was 30.6% based on their adjusted gross income.

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Brexit: Norway cool on UK idea to come back to EFTA

It is not obvious that the UK can enter EFTA, the club that brings together Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

According to Elizabeth Vik Aspaker, Minister for European Affairs of the Scandinavian country, in an interview with the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, UK could be a problem for the country: "It is not certain that men may bring to this organization a great country is a good idea, it would change the balance , which is not necessarily in the interests of Norway. "

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Brexit visa could mean 140 years’ work

Brexit might make its effects felt also in the UK bureaucracy: if all European citizens who live, study and work in Britain would appear to ask for a residence visa, there would be a clogging equal to work for 140 years dispose of all the amount of paperwork. The administrative effects could be very serious: it is the result of a study by the Migration Observatory at Oxford University, as reports the Financial Times.

The "right" to residence, depending on the outcome of the referendum may be required for more than 3.5 million people and since, at the time, the Ministry of Interior English is no more than 25 thousand practices a year, the race to seen could create an unprecedented bureaucratic gridlock, since they would be disposed of a file number 140 times higher than average.

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Bank of England cuts interest rates to historical 0,25%

First intervention on rates in seven years by the Bank of England. The institute headed by Canadian Mark Carney announced that it has reduced the benchmark rate from 0.5% to 0.25% setting a new low for the cost of money.
The measure, already announced but then postponed surprise on July 14, is interpreted as a British economic stimulus in the background of the Brexit uncertainties and new alarm about a possible recession.

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Japan: Abe’s government approves new stimulus package

Abe’s cabinet approved a new package of fiscal stimulus measures by 28 thousand billion yen, approximately 244.5 billion euro.

The goals of the operation are the revival of GDP to 1.4%, new measures to protect children, financial subsidies to 22 million low-income people, loans 10,700 billion yen for investment in infrastructure and 7 billion and a half for the direct fiscal spending for the national and local governments.

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Turkey: President Erdogan heavily criticizes EU

Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the European Union and its representative Federica Mogherini had spoken without knowing the reality, on the attempted coup in Turkey, committed, he said, by a "layered structure" comparable Italian Mafia or P2.

"Mogherini would not have to talk," Erdogan said in an exclusive interview to the Italian TV RaiNews24. "It was instead to come to Turkey" as well as European leaders go in the places struck by terrorism. "It ‘s an ongoing coup that made 238 martyrs but no one came here," continued the president turkish. "If they had bombed the Italian parliament Mogherini would have said that was fine? To be concerned about the processes that would follow?", He asked, explaining that the introduction of capital punishment is desired "57% of Turkish citizens": "If the parliament will vote for the death penalty, then no one will say anything. "

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Tokyo elects Koike, first femal governor

For the first time Tokyo will be led by a woman. The elections, which were held on Sunday to elect a new local governor, the third in three years, have seen the victory of Yuriko Koike, previously the first woman to head the Defense Ministry.
The victory, in the metropolis of 13 million residents, was obtained with a gap of more than a million votes over second classified, the rival Hiroya Masuda, supported by the Liberal Democratic Party of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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Russia replies to ISIS threaths

Daesh threats against Russia can not influence the position of Moscow in the fight against international terrorism, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
The video released today by terrorists in which a man, masked, threatening Putin, exhorts his "brothers" Muslims for jihad against Russia led the government to express itself firmly. "These threats are not able in any way to influence the policy of Russia and President Putin in the fight against international terrorism, which of course will continue in all directions," Peskov told reporters.

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