{"id":642886,"date":"2017-08-24T04:07:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T04:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/08\/24\/on-the-horizon-175\/"},"modified":"2017-08-24T04:07:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T04:07:37","slug":"on-the-horizon-175","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/08\/24\/on-the-horizon-175\/","title":{"rendered":"On the horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"content-anchor\" id=\"tldr-story-04\"><\/a> <strong>We\u2019re officially looking at a five-day weekend next week:<\/strong> The Ismail cabinet announced that the Eid Al Adha holiday will be from Thursday till Monday, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/gate.ahram.org.eg\/News\/1570787.aspx\">Ahram Gate<\/a>, <strong>meaning we are back to work on Tuesday, 5 September<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Council of State (Maglis Al Dawla) is set to begin <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2017\/08\/21\/on-the-horizon-179\/\"><strong>reviewing the executive <\/strong><strong>regulations to the Investment Act<\/strong><\/a><strong> in September<\/strong>, after the <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2017\/08\/20\/cabinet-approves-investment-act-executive-regulations\/\">cabinet signed off<\/a> on them last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cabinet should begin discussing the Universal Healthcare Act before the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2017\/08\/03\/universal-healthcare-act-to-cost-state-coffers-egp-130-bn-in-fy2017-18\/\"><strong>end of the <\/strong><strong>month<\/strong><\/a> and send it to the House of Representatives when it reconvenes <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.press\/stories\/2017\/07\/03\/on-the-horizon-150\/\">in September<\/a>. 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