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29th Mar 2024

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Erdogan set to re-introduce death penalty

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that his government would ask parliament to consider reintroducing the death penalty as a punishment for the plotters behind the July coup bid. Capital punishment was abolished in Turkey in 2004 as the nation sought accession to the European Union. Meanwhile, Turkish police detained Murat Sabuncu, the editor of newspaper Cumhuriyet, on Monday morning, in the latest crackdown on independent media.

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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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