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Weidmann repeats call for ECB to announce end of bond purchases

The European Central Bank should set an end date for its asset-buying program, head of Germany's Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann repeated in an interview with Spanish daily El Mundo on Sunday. The ECB has pledged to continue buying bonds at least until September, despite positive economic trends lately. Weidmann is regarded as a possible candidate to succeed ECB president Mario Draghi when his term expires at the end of October 2019.

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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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