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Parliament MPs can forget about ludicrous proposals for price controls:<\/strong> The government is well aware of how much prices rise in the local market after each reform measure it enacts, but it will not interfere to put a cap on these prices or exercise any other form of mandatory control, Mahmoud Khalil writes for El Watan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Parliament MPs can forget about ludicrous proposals for price controls: The government is well aware of how much prices rise in the local market after each reform measure it enacts, but it will not interfere to put a cap on these prices or exercise any other form of mandatory control, Mahmoud Khalil writes for El […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9411],"tags":[72,9410],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-644873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-deadline","tag-enterpriseam","tag-on-deadline","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"918c2ce6-8fd8-4553-b8db-2633f97e92e2","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[644848],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nThe government knows how much prices are rising, but isn\u2019t going to interfere - 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