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29th Mar 2024

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Strongest support for ISIS among young French

One in six French citizens,16%, sympathises with the Islamist militant group ISIS, a poll from ICM Research for Russian news agency Rossiya Segodnya has found. Sympathy for ISIS stood at 27% among young French aged 18-24. Only 7% of British citizens and 3-4% of Germans responded favourably to ISIS.

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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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