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29th Mar 2024

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Georgia's Saakashvili on Kiev roof after police operation

The house of former Georgia president Mikheil Saakashvili in Kiev was searched by police on Tuesday morning. Local media showed pictures of Saakashvili on the roof of the building. "They want to kidnap me, because I rallied in Ukrainian people's defence", he told supporters gathered outside, according to the Kiyiv Post. Saakashvili was governor of the Ukrainian region of Odessa in 2015-2016, but quit over conflicts with president Petro Poroshenko.

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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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