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Polish defence minister accuses Tusk of treason

Poland's defence minister, Antoni Macierewicz, accused European Council president Donald Tusk of betraying his country's interests to please Moscow. He claimed that after the 2010 plane crash over Russia that killed the then Polish president, Tusk committed a "criminal offence" by accepting a deal to investigate the crash with Moscow. Macierewicz heads a special commission re-investigating the crash, and prosecutors have 30 days to decide whether to investigate the claim.

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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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