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29th Mar 2024

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Marine Le Pen barred from Ukraine

Ukraine's foreign ministry indicated on Wednesday it would blacklist French far-right leader Marine Le Pen for saying that Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea was "not illegal". "Making statements that repeat Kremlin propaganda, the French politician shows disrespect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine and completely ignores fundamental principles of international law," the ministry said. Le Pen's office told Reuters she had no intention of visiting Ukraine.

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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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