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29th Mar 2024

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Human rights court settles in favour of migrant slaves in Greece

The European Court of Human Rights settled in favour of 42 Bangladeshis, forced to pick strawberries under armed supervision in Greece in 2013. The workers went on strike over unpaid wages, with one of the guards opening fire. A Greek court had acquitted the employer of trafficking. The Strasbourg-based court said the migrants were subjected to forced labour, ordering Greece to pay €12,000-16,000 in damages to each.

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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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