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29th Mar 2024

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Merkel rejects NSA-Stasi comparison

Chancellor Angela Merkel has rejected comparisons between the secret surveillance run by America's NSA and that of East Germany's secret police Stasi. “These are two completely different things,” Merkel told Die Zeit. “Such comparisons only trivialise what state security did to people”, said Merkel, who grew up in East Germany.

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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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