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EU Mediterranean mission extended until end of 2018

The EU on Tuesday extended Operation Sophia, the EU's naval mission in the Mediterranean, until 31 December 2018. The mission's mandate, to train Libyan coastguards and help enforce an arms embargo, has also been widened. It will now set up a monitoring mechanism for coastguard trainees, gather information on oil traffic from Libya, and increase information sharing on human trafficking with the EU's border agency, Frontex, and police agency, Europol.

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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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