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Nobel-winner warns Europe not immune to nuclear war threat

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican) warned MEPs on Wednesday the likelihood of nuclear war was greater than during most of the Cold War, and that if nuclear weapons are not dismantled, it was a matter of when, not if, nuclear weapons are used, either on purpose or by accident. Ican executive director Beatrice Fihn was speaking to the parliament in Strasbourg.

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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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