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UK should pay more for Calais migrants, says French minister

French interior minister Gerard Collomb on Sunday said Britain should shoulder more of the costs for migrants hoping to cross the English Channel from the French port city of Calais. Speaking to the Le Parisien daily, Collomb said he wanted to revamp the 2003 Touquet accords. The accords are a bilateral agreement that allow the UK to set up border controls in France. Several hundred migrants are amassed near Calais.

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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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