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29th Mar 2024

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Rome declaration to set 10-year EU perspective

Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Thursday that the Rome Declaration to be adopted on 25 March will hail the results obtained by the European Union in the 60 years since the signing of the Rome Treaty, as well as "map out the prospects for the next 10 years". Speaking after talks with the Maltese EU presidency, Gentiloni said "We think that the project [European Union] can be relaunched."

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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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