Sunday 14/December/2025 – 01:51 PM
Today, Dr. Mustafa Madbouly, Prime Minister, held a meeting to discuss finding radical solutions to the financial problems in Maspero and the national newspapers, in the presence of Eng. Abdel Sadiq El Shorbagy, Chairman of the National Press Authority, Ahmed El Maslamani, Chairman of the National Media Authority, Sherif El Kilani, Deputy Minister of Finance for Tax Policies, Rasha Abdel Aal, Head of the Egyptian Tax Authority, Ahmed El Sadiq, Head of the Real Estate Tax Authority, Ahmed Sayed, Head of the Human Development Budgets Sector at the Ministry of Finance, and Taha Mohamed Mahmoud, Head of the Economic Sector at the National Media Authority, with the participation of Ahmed Kajouk, Minister of Finance, via video conference technology.
Madbouly: There is flexibility on the part of the government and a willingness to support and support these institutions to remove them from their financial difficulties and implement real financial reform.
At the beginning of the meeting, the Prime Minister indicated the government’s interest in resolving the problems of Maspero and the national newspapers, based on its belief in the important role of these institutions in spreading knowledge and enlightenment, and contributing with an effective positive impact in shaping public opinion and developing cultural and social awareness.
Dr. Mostafa Madbouly stressed that this meeting comes within the framework of the government’s work to reach a radical solution to the financial problems facing both the National Media Organizations and the National Press Corporations, and their affiliated institutions, in a way that contributes to boosting performance and improving their economic conditions, which is reflected in the development of journalistic and media performance, and pushes towards strengthening the role assigned to these two bodies and their affiliated institutions.
The Prime Minister stressed that the government is ready to offer serious and radical solutions to the problems of these two financial bodies, provided that this is coupled with a real vision for development, performance reform, and restructuring, and for the two bodies to be able to complete their roles without returning to debt again, so that we will have succeeded in implementing real reform in the two bodies and their affiliated institutions.
The Prime Minister said: The government took similar measures with a number of bodies that were burdened by debt, but on the condition that these bodies succeed in governing the administration, developing its resources, and sustaining its successful management.
During the meeting, Engineer Abdel Sadiq Al-Shorbaji and Ahmed Al-Maslamani explained: The measures taken by each of their bodies in order to develop resources, rationalize spending, and invest assets, in a way that contributes to improving the economic situation, and they reviewed a number of measures that push towards achieving the goals of improving the economic situation in each body.
The meeting witnessed a review of the debt position of the National Press Authority and the National Media Authority. With regard to insurance, pensions, taxes, and government proposals for payment, which contribute to developing radical solutions to these debts that have accumulated for years, with the necessity of governance and good management.
At the end of the meeting, Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, Prime Minister, asked the heads of the two bodies; Quickly prepare a clear study with numbers that includes everything related to the financial procedures of their affiliated press and media institutions, in a way that contributes to reforming their economic conditions, stressing that there is flexibility on the part of the government and a willingness to support and support these institutions, to remove them from their financial stumbling blocks, to ensure the stability of their economic conditions, and to implement a real financial reform that contributes to developing journalistic and media performance, and strengthening the role of the two bodies and their affiliated institutions.
