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29th Mar 2024

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Tainted eggs found in 24 EU states

Eggs tainted with fipronil, a harmful insecticide, have now been detected in 24 out of 28 EU states and in 40 countries worldwide, according to German press agency DPA. Lithuania, Portugal, Cyprus, and Croatia were the only EU states with a clean bill of health, the European Commission said, with EU farm ministers to discuss the affair, which first came to light in the summer, in Tallinn on Tuesday.

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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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