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29th Mar 2024

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Macron avoids criticising Poland on legal reforms

French president Emmanuel Macron carefully avoided criticising Poland for plans to put courts and media under more government control, when he met Polish prime minister Beata Szydlo in Paris on Thursday. "We will continue to exchange views on this topic for concerns," he said. Regarding a reform of the EU's directive on posted workers, Macron and Szydlo said there was room for compromise after the trucking industry was exempted.

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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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