On the horizon

The House Budget Committee will discuss the FY2017-18 budget on Monday, 8 May and not this week, according to Deputy Finance Minister Mohamed Maait. MPs reportedly postponed the scheduled discussion at the request of the finance and planning ministers, who are meant to attend the sessions, but will be tied up with the IMF delegation here in Cairo until 11 May assessing Egypt’s progress on economic reform, unnamed MPs tell Al Borsa.