Budget
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Where is the budget? Iraq faces significant delays
- Iraq has not approved its annual budget for 2026, despite it being May and parliament being in session. - The author criticizes successive governments and parliament for neglecting budget approval, linking it to post-2003 Bremer directives that altered government accounting principles. - The delay is seen as a constitutional violation, with the author calling for judicial intervention similar to…