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29th Mar 2024

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Austria will accept only 80 asylum seekers a day

Austria will accept only 80 asylum applications a day and will allow only 3,200 asylum seekers to travel through to other countries. Ministers said the rules would take effect on Friday. Last month the government promised to cap asylum seeker numbers at 1.5 percent of Austria's population for four years.

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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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