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29th Mar 2024

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Kosovo is Serbia, says Austria's deputy PM

Austrian deputy prime minister Heinz-Christian Strache said over the weekend that "Kosovo is without a doubt a part of Serbia." Strache, the leader of the far-right Freedom Party (FPO), told Serbian newspaper Politika that his party was against the recognition of Kosovo by Austria. He added, however, that "one cannot change that anymore". He said that Serbs in northern Kosovo should be granted "self-determination or autonomy".

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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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