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29th Mar 2024

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UK Navy should run migrant patrols in Channel, MPs suggest

The Royal Navy should be deployed in the English Channel to deter people-smugglers and combat potential terror threats, a report from UK MPs in a Home Affairs select committee suggested. Royal Navy vessels should be made available to bolster the current Border Force, which has only three boats - a "worryingly low" number, according to the MPs.

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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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