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'Speeches are not negotiating positions', Juncker tells May

European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said on Tuesday that UK prime minister Theresa May's speech in Florence last month was "conciliatory", but that "speeches are not negotiating positions". He told MEPs in Strasbourg that Article 50 and the EU leaders' mandate to negotiate was clear: "We first need to agree on the terms of the divorce and then we see if we can half-lovingly find each other again."

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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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