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29th Mar 2024

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France leads on EU migrant relocations

Efforts to relocate some 160,000 asylum seekers from Greece and Italy to other EU states over a two-year period remain weak. France remains the top destination country, having taken 1,924 people from Greece and 231 from Italy in an EU scheme launched last September. As of Tuesday (8 November), a total of 5,376 had been relocated from Greece and another 1,549 from Italy across most EU states.

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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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