"In accordance with the constitutional declaration, any international agreement needs to be approved by the legislative authority, and in the absence of parliament, President Mohamed Mursi is empowered to take such decisions"
September 25, 2012 8:49
The time it took Mursi to name his prime minister underlined how Egypt is struggling to turn new political freedoms into an effective government
July 29, 2012 9:10
Egypt now has a president and a prime minister neither of whom have significant experience in finance at a time when the economy is on its knees, running on foreign reserves worth barely three months of imports
July 25, 2012 9:31