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29th Mar 2024

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UK does not collect enough data to expel EU nationals

A UK home affairs minister refused to say if the British government had ever made use of EU-wide rules that would allow it to expel EU nationals if they are not working or seeking employment, the Guardian reported. Reducing immigration was a key debate in Britain's EU referendum last June. Lady Susan Williams admitted her department doesn't hold data to know whether EU nationals in the UK had secured jobs.

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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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