Of tax, trains and trials
It’s a mixed bag in the foreign press this morning: The Finance Ministry’s controversial plans to require online content creators to pay income tax and VAT has been picked up by AFP, while India’s the Economic Times gleefully points out that a Chinese company missed out on Egypt’s high-speed rail contract, which was instead awarded to Siemens.
In the latest in the Regeni case, the Guardian reports that a delegation of Italian parliamentarians are travelling to the UK this week for talks with Cambridge University, where Regeni enrolled as a PhD student. He was abducted and killed in Egypt in 2014. This comes only a few weeks before four members of Egypt’s security services go on trial in absentia in Italy after a judge decided in May that there is “sufficient evidence” to accuse them of the murder.