Tag: Dilma Rousseff

• Monday, January 18th 2016 - 08:24 UTC

  Rousseff eliminates regulations which impeded public universities working with the private sector

  

  Full-time professors at public universities in Brazil will now be allowed to carry out research in the private sector—and get paid for it, without having to drop their academic jobs. The change is the result of a new law, signed by President Dilma Rousseff, designed to bring science and industry closer together.

• Monday, January 18th 2016 - 08:11 UTC

  Rousseff admits a government bailout of indebted Petrobras is a serious option

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff admitted that a government bailout for the country’s troubled state-controlled oil company Petrobras can’t be ruled out. The company is mired in financial troubles amid a deep decline of global oil prices and a sprawling corruption scandal involving several of its former executives and its largest suppliers.

• Friday, January 15th 2016 - 09:24 UTC

  Desperate for funds Rousseff offers amnesty to holders of undeclared offshore assets

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Thursday signed a bill that gives amnesty to holders of undeclared offshore assets in exchange for a fine, part of efforts to cut a swelling budget gap and revive investment in the recession-hit economy. The law offers amnesty from prosecution to Brazilians if they bring unreported foreign funds home and pay a 30 percent fine in the form of tax.

• Friday, January 15th 2016 - 09:13 UTC

  Petrobras scandal prosecution-informer involves president Rousseff in the scheme

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, and three former heads of state have been dragged into the investigation into the huge corruption scheme in the state-run oil firm Petrobras. According to informer Nestor Cerveró, Rousseff was personally involved in negotiations for votes in Congress in exchange for top jobs in Petrobras.

• Wednesday, January 13th 2016 - 05:06 UTC

  Crucial February for Rousseff: economic plan must convince investors and Congress

  

  With her job on the line, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is spending January developing an economic plan which she hopes will restore faith in her leadership and weaken looming impeachment proceedings against her.

• Friday, January 8th 2016 - 11:51 UTC

  Rousseff vows 'fiscal belt-tightening' but 'there's no rabbit in the hat' for the current situation

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff vowed Thursday that her administration would strive for fiscal belt-tightening and look to keep inflation in check in 2016, saying achieving those goals would help lift the economy out of recession.

• Thursday, January 7th 2016 - 08:08 UTC

  Rousseff's unaccomplished promise of no recession or retrocession

  

  On 2 February 2015, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff sent the Executive message to Congress with her government's plan and promising she would not promote “recession or retrocession.” However eleven months later, Brazil is undergoing full recession and faces retrocession in several areas, having been downgraded by two credit risk agencies.

• Monday, January 4th 2016 - 07:09 UTC

  Brazil's Rousseff faces Olympic political and financial challenges this year

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff began the new year on the offensive declaring the impeachment proceedings she faces as “unfair” and overruling by veto more than 50 amendments made by lawmakers to the nation’s budget, including reductions to her flagship Bolsa Familia social program.

• Tuesday, December 29th 2015 - 08:07 UTC

  Israel pressing Brazil to accept pro-settler activist as its ambassador

  

  Brazil’s reluctance to accept an Argentine born pro-settler politician as Israeli ambassador has triggered a diplomatic clash and concerns it could seriously damage future relations between the two countries.

• Tuesday, December 22nd 2015 - 14:37 UTC

  Rousseff's impeachment support score almost a tie, but 60% prepared to remove speaker Cunha

  

  An estimated 42% of Brazilian Lower House lawmakers (513) are prepared to support the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff, which is equivalent to 215 votes. But the impeachment motion requires at least 342 votes, two thirds of the total number, which means supporters are still 127 votes short. These numbers belong to a Congress members survey from Datafolha, which was taken between December 7 and 18.