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28th Mar 2024

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Turkey frees and expels French journalist

Loup Bureau, a French journalist detained in Turkey since July, will "soon" be freed and expelled, his lawyer said on Friday. Bureau was charged with supporting terrorism after reporting on Kurdish armed groups at the Syrian border. On Wednesday, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker had called on Turkey to "let our journalists go." Deniz Yucel, a German-Turkish journalist, who is still in prison as of February, is charged with espionage.

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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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