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29th Mar 2024

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Juncker: No Brexit talks for months

Britain will need months of preparation before Brexit talks can start, EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has said. He added that Britain faced losing its unrestricted access to the single market if it did not accept free movement of workers. British media reports suggestedBrexit talks are already under way behind the scenes to find a compromise.

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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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