| The government plans to introduce a legal minimum wage in Cape Verde before the end of this year, according to an announcement made by Prime Minister José Maria Neves following a meeting in which labor union federation UNTC-CS’s general secretary Júlio Ascensão Silva presented the premier with a study the organization carried out on the issue.
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| The National Assembly will meet in an extraordinary session today, Monday, December 14, to discuss and approve a bill aimed at reducing a number of customs fees, negotiated as a part of the process through which Cape Verde joined the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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| The president of opposition party MpD, Carlos Veiga, will be a special guest at the congress of the European People’s Party (PPE) in Bonn, Germany between December 8 and 10. The party is a member of the Centrist Democrat International, of which the MpD is also a part. The meeting’s host will be German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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| The United States sector of Cape Verde’s governing party, the PAICV, will promote an activity on December 6 aimed at collecting preventative equipment and medication to be sent to Cape Verde. The items to be collected are aimed at combating dengue, as the epidemic has begun to wane in the country.
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| The PAICV and the MpD will, through their respective leaders, sign a memorandum of understanding today aimed at revising Cape Verde’s Constitution. The two parties managed to come to an agreement regarding access to and the functioning of the Supreme Court of Justice and the High Council of Judicial Magistrates. However, another knot in negotiations – the officialization of Crioulo, the Cape Verdean language – had to be set aside for the time being in a concession made by the governing PAICV, our sources has learned.
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