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29th Mar 2024

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France's Fillon to propose migration quotas

French conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon is to lay out plans for migration quotas for non-EU nationals on Wednesday, Reuters reported. The favourite presidential candidate in the upcoming May election will announce his proposals in Nice, where 86 people were murdered last year by a French resident of Tunisian origin. Fillon wants the parliament to set annual immigration quotas taking into account the employment and housing situation.

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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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