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29th Mar 2024

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Report: Most Dutch senators back Ukraine deal

A majority of Dutch senators will support the deal on the EU-Ukraine treaty that PM Rutte brought home last week from an EU summit, Dutch state broadcaster NOS reported on Tuesday. Rutte needs a majority in both houses of parliament to ratify the treaty after a referendum in April. The centrist-liberal D66 party and Greens have announced they will support him, securing a majority in the lower house.

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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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