The Shura Council held its regular weekly session Monday under the chairmanship of HE the Speaker of the Council, Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid al-Mahmoud.

Rising energy prices and efforts to diversify government revenue may see Qatar’s 2018 budget swing into surplus

Qatar's budget should be back to "near balance" by 2018, as it overcomes the shock waves from a global fall in energy prices, economists at Qatar National Bank have forecast.