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New independence referendum likely if Scots don't get EU deal

Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon repeated demands on Tuesday for a special Brexit deal to keep Scotland in the EU single market to prevent a second independence referendum on whether Scotland wants to be part of a post-Brexit UK. Sturgeon said that "in the absence of compromise" another independence vote "may offer the only way in which our voice can be heard, our interests protected, and our values upheld."

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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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