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28th Mar 2024

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EU publishes new Russia blacklist

The EU has named the 12 new people to face visa bans and asset freezes over Crimea's annexation. The top names include: Russian deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin; two senior Kremlin officials, Sergey Glazyev and Vladislav Surkov; Russian senate speaker Valentina Matviyenko; Russian Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin; and propagandist Dmitry Kiselyov.

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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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