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29th Mar 2024

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Juncker to Britain: "Out is out"

"Out is out," European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said Wednesday about the possibility of a British exit from the EU after Thursday's referendum. "There will no kind of renegotiation," he said. Referring to the EU reform agreement reached in February, he said that British prime minister David Cameron "got the maximum he could receive, we gave the maxium we could give".

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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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