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28th Mar 2024

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Greece: Breaking up with Turkey would be 'mistake'

Ending EU accession talks with Turkey would be a "mistake," Greek PM Alexis Tsipras has warned. Speaking at a press conference in Thessaloniki on Sunday he said authoritarian Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan would welcome such a move because the EU entry process meant pressing ahead with "the needed democratisation of the country." German leader Angela Merkel recently said the EU should call off Turkey's negotiations.

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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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