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29th Mar 2024

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French MP takes aim at EU flag

Jean-Luc Melenchon, a prominent left-wing MP, redoubled a eurosceptic campaign Wednesday to remove the EU flag from France's parliament. He said the French president had no right to "impose a confessional emblem that did not belong there". French leader Emmanuel Macron has said he would belatedly sign an EU treaty clause - Declaration 52 - at next week's EU summit that recognised the flag to put the matter to rest.

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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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