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29th Mar 2024

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MEPs to call for postponing Brexit talks assessment

In a resolution to be adopted next week, the European Parliament will call on EU leaders to "postpone [their] assessment on whether sufficient progress has been made" in EU-UK negotiations on Brexit, "unless there is [a] major breakthrough" until then, according to a draft text seen by EUobserver. They say that "sufficient progress has not yet been made" on citizens' rights, Ireland and the financial settlement.

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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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