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28th Mar 2024

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EU-backed Kosovo-Serbia talks resume

EU-mediated talks on normalising Kosovo-Serbia relations restarted in Brussels Monday after a five-month break prompted by the arrest of a Kosovar politician on war crimes allegations. The EU said Serbia's president Vucic and Kosovo's president Thaci were ready for "a new phase of the dialogue". Vucic also told media he asked the EU when his country could become a member "so that we don't act like geese in the fog".

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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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