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29th Mar 2024

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Calais wants to end UK perks on migrants

Natacha Bouchart, the mayor of Calais, France, has said the UK should take more responsibility for migrants trying to cross via the Channel Tunnel. She said a 2003 deal, under which British police does immigration checks on the French side and which sees many people stuck on the French side, should no longer apply. “The English wanted to take back their freedom: they must take back their border”, she said.

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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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