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29th Mar 2024

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France's Macron hosts Libyan peace talks

French president Emmanuel Macron will host the leaders of warring factions of Libya on Tuesday in Paris, to bring peace and stability to the North African country, crucial in Europe's drive to curb migration. The two leaders, Fayez al-Sarraj, head of the UN-backed government in Tripoli, and Khalifa Haftar, whose army controls large swathes of territory to the east, have so far been unable to agree on a power-sharing deal.

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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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