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29th Mar 2024

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EU court rules against Commission on weed-killer

The European Commission should not have refused to release details of its decision to approve the sale of glyphosate, a weed-killer that has been linked to cancer, the EU Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday. The commission, which had said releasing the details would have breached trade secrets, said the ruling was "quite complex" and would need analysing closely. Greenpeace, one of the claimants, called it a "landmark" ruling.

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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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