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28th Mar 2024

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France to help Czechs build nuclear plants

French foreign minister Laurent Fabius confirmed on Sunday on a visit to Prague that state-controlled utility Electricite de France will be part of a public tender to build new nuclear reactors in the Czech Republic, reports AP. Prague wants to build more reactors at the Temelin and Dukovany nuclear plants.

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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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Moscow's terror attack, security and Gaza

This week's Euroscopic explores the consequences of Moscow's terror attack, the convergence of public safety and border/migration policy in an EU election year, and the United Nations Security resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

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