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28th Mar 2024

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Centre-right ahead in Austrian poll

The centre-right OMV party of 31-year old foreign minister and likely new Austrian leader Sebastian Kurz was ahead with 33 percent in the latest poll, by OGM-Umfrage, published on Monday. The centre-left SPO was second with 27 percent, amid a scandal that saw it trying to smear Kurz with fake websites. The far-right FPO party was third on 25 percent and is likely to become Kurz's controversial coalition partner.

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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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