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29th Mar 2024

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Dutch government to appeal Srebrenica ruling

The Dutch government said Wednesday that it will ask the Supreme Court to overrule a ruling, which partially blamed the Netherlands for the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica. In June, an appeals court said: "the state is liable for 30 percent of the losses suffered by the relatives" because Dutch peacekeepers handed men over to Bosnian Serb forces. A government spokesman had said the ruling was "incomprehensible".

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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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