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French minister to appear in Dieselgate committee this month

After several months of uncertainty, French environment minister Segolene Royal is scheduled to appear in front of the European Parliament's inquiry committee into the Dieselgate scandal on 24 November, during Strasbourg week. It had taken months for the minister and the committee's secretariat to find a date. The committee is trying to find out if member states and the EU commission did enough to have clean cars on the road.

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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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