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28th Mar 2024

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Dutch anti-EU party tops opinion poll

Geert Wilders' right-wing Freedom Party would become the Netherland's largest political group in new elections according to a recent opinion poll, reports The Irish Times. The polls shows Wilders' anti-EU party would double its seats in the 150-seat parliament from 15 to 29 if elections were held on Friday.

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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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