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Palestine seeking to join 16 more UN agencies

Palestine is aiming to join 16 other UN agencies, beginning with the World Health Organisation in Geneva, following its successful bid to join Unesco on Monday, Israeli media report. The development could cause a UN funding crisis, with the US threatening to cut money to anybody that takes it in.

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Opinion

EU Modernisation Fund: an open door for fossil gas in Romania

Among the largest sources of financing for energy transition of central and eastern European countries, the €60bn Modernisation Fund remains far from the public eye. And perhaps that's one reason it is often used for financing fossil gas projects.

'Swiftly dial back' interest rates, ECB told

Italian central banker Piero Cipollone in his first monetary policy speech since joining the ECB's board in November, said that the bank should be ready to "swiftly dial back our restrictive monetary policy stance."

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